The Blessing of Rain and Other Poems History_Gift_Guide making this volume essential reading

making this volume essential reading for Tolkien scholars

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addresses racial division

the Intervention Wheel

Armed with knowledge of what’s to come

The Blessing of Rain and Other Poems History_Gift_Guide making this volume essential readingThe poetry in this collection is informed by the memory of ancestors and is motivated as well by my personal struggle to define a vision of life. The poems are arranged loosely into five categories: Ancestors and Memory, Passages, The Natural World, The Spiritual Life, and Love and Other Essences. The classification is loose, because each piece is part of the greater story and may play more than one such role in the telling. This work is very