Description:
Horsefly Dress is a meditation on the experience and beauty of suffering. Rich in the imagery of autumnal foliage, migrating birds, and frozen landscapes, Heather Cahoon's collection calls forth the sensory experience of grief and metamorphosis. The transformative powers associated with the human experience of loss belong to the past, present, and future, as do the traditional Salish-Pend d'Oreille stories that create the backbone of these intricate poems.
Review Quotes: "It is such a pleasure to experience so many Old Stories told in and between the lines of Heather Cahoon's gorgeous poems."--Chris La Tray, High Country News
"Heather Cahoon is a descendent of Horsefly Dress, a daughter of Coyote. Horsefly Dress is a book of poems that urges us to connect with the brutality and hope of the past and the future through memories, dreams, visions, and meditations."--Natalie Peeterse, author of Dreadful: Luminosity "Heather Cahoon's collection, Horsefly Dress, reminds us once again of the wisdom in our elders' storytelling, the relevancy to our here and now, our always. Cahoon's is the avian language of the thoughtful Plains poets."--James Thomas Stevens, author of A Bridge Dead in the Water