Eugene, OR: Resource Publications / Wipf and Stock (2015). SIGNED first edition - In these poems, Beal "goes in search of America. She sings the Cherokee Creation story, imagining dialogue between Sky-Woman and First Man. . . she gives voice to women from American history such as the mother Pocahontas, the midwife Martha Ballard, and the preacher Sojourner Truth. She enters into conversation with American writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman. She later turns from human voices to Nature's creatures, watching the Stellar's Jay, Mourning Dove, and Great White Egret in flight. She explores the landscapes of California, Colorado, and New Mexico, the city of Vallejo, and the high Sierras." SIGNED on the title page. 88 pp. ISBN: 978-1498221825.