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The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood display a sensibility formed by the harsh, outlandishly beautiful terrain of the American West. Will Baker's tales range from Nebraska to Peru and tell of a boy's first trout, a bar brawl over a woman, and the vise-like grip of gold over all of the Americas. They spring from an imagination shaped by wild, circuitous mealtime stories of prospectors and from the bitter history of a place where suburban ranch houses dot the vast sweep of land once hunted by the Lakotah.
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Reviews
"Poems that speak both to the richness and ruin of history and teem with all that is earthy and corporeal."
Kenyon Review
"Extraordinarily splendid writing. . . . Mountain Blood captures the independent spirit and sensibility of the American West."
Harper's
"Worth reading not only because Will Baker tells a good story, and he surely does, but because he takes the extra step of wondering why these stories occurred in the first place."
San Francisco Chronicle