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Shapeshift by Sherwin Bitsui and published by the University of Arizona Press a review

"Shapeshift is a superb and hauntingly original debut. In struggling to reconcile the opposing forces of the natural world and technology, Sherwin Bitsui's poems enact a personal ceremony, restoring balance to his and our world." —Arthur Sze, author of The Redshifting Web


"In poems that move by deep intuition, Bitsui haunts the edges between cultures, connecting the previously unconnected, finally dissolving the boundaries between worlds." —Jon Davis, author of Scrimmage of Appetite


"It was wonderful to enter this landscape, impossible not to be compelled by this voice, by the beautifully nuanced tone of the poems." —Janet McAdams, author of The Island of Lost Luggage

"Fourteen ninety-something, / something happened / and no one can pick it out of the lineup . . . "
Shapeshift is Sherwin Bitsui's first book of a collection of his poetry that expresses the struggles of life.

. . . This is not about the rejection of our skin; the mud dries as it is poured into our ears. But the linguist still runs his hands up the length of our tongues, perplexed that we even have a tongue at all.

Shapeshift is an imaginative selection of wording in relation to man and politics and the world expressing the dry lack of spirituality among interactions between the Indian and those who are not. I loved this book as it was one that reached deep into the soul and you could step into a tiny part of the world through the eyes of this incredible author Sherwin Bitsui.

About the Author
Sherwin Bitsui, of Arizona, is Dinč of the Bitter Water People, born for the Manygoats People. He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts' Creative Writing program. He is also the recipient of the 2000-2001 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship and more recently, the 2002 University of Arizona's Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Award. His poems have appeared in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank, Red Ink, and elsewhere.

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