Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview

yet more complicated and salient issues are at the heart of these poems

Jim Denomie (La Courte Oreilles Band

Anton Treuer focuses on interactions with other tribes

Light as Light Molalla Coast Salish culture is boundLight As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortizs first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume celebrate the wonders and joy of love in the present while also looking back with both humorous and serious reflections on youth and the stories, scenes, people, and places that shape a persons life. Light As Light brims with giddy, wistful long distance love poems that offer a dialogue between the speaker and his beloved. Written in Ortizs