Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book of poetry, and the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1978 - poems which range across history and geography to give voice to many - from Trotsky in the title poem, to the Japanese writers Mishima and Kawabata to Marilyn Monroe. Ai described herself as half Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Black, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-395-275938.