Poetry. Native American Studies. "CEDAR SMOKE ON ABALONE MOUNTAIN seamlessly weaves the spiritual with the daily, the present with the past...These unignorable poems eschew sentimentality for clarity of vision, such that their overarching tone of respect - for tradition, for event, for place, for people - is earned again and again via the experiences of the poems themselves" - Jim Simmerman. "These poemsà are the songs of The Reservation: Somebody 'stumbles on the wrong side of dawn,' while somebody else sings a song of Blessing for the child 'born of a warrior people.' CEDAR SMOKE is an extraordinary book by a clear-sighted poet who tells no lies - beautifully" - Ann Cummins.