Poetry. Native American Studies. This fifteenth anniversary edition brings STAR QUILT back into print. In the forward, Joy Harjo praises the important place this book occupies in Native American writing: "When I return to this collection I return to a time illuminated by these particular Roberta Hill poems. I am listening again to an old song. There is a house in the distance built on allotted land. There are horses. There is a star quilt hanging on the wall and each scrap of fabric tells the story of someone's life. Like playing your favorite classics on the jukebox there is an explosion of sweet memory and suddenly time and place is fluid. We can bend time and place with poetry, with songs." Along with illustrations by Ernest Whitemen, one finds in this work a map of the journey each of us must complete, wittingly or not, as children and exiles of the Americas. "I have long admired Roberta Hill Whiteman and celebrate that, with this book, her poems have become more possible in this country"—Carolyn Forché.