Poetry. Two short books in one, back-to-back narratives from the author of CARTOGRAPHY and former publisher of Tansy Press. Moritz's observations of the present-day condition of the Maya and the amusement-value treatment of their heritage is at once bitingly sharp and stingingly humorous; greed and arrogance, both historic and contemporary, are fed their just deserts in Mayaland. Moritz takes the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Lewis and Clark's historic voyage from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean to relate the explorers' and his own trip through the specifics and the vagaries of life in the remotes of Mid-American river country in Catfish Frenzy. Life in the Heartland—to a crisp.