Let the Voices

Let the Voices is a book about the uneasiness of living with those whose lives have been cut short by the violence of poverty. Set in a trailer park on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, the speaker in these poems gives voice to childhood companions often hungry, both literally and figuratively, for a kind of salvation. In a splicing of lyric and narrative vignettes language becomes both subject and catalyst for recovering one's voice in a negligent world.

Kevin Goodan was raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, and fought forest fires for ten seasons with the USFS. He is the author ofIn The Ghost-House Acquainted, Winter Tenor, Upper Level Disturbancesand several chapbooks. Kevin resides with his wife and son on the Palouse Prairie outside Moscow, Idaho, and is Associate Professor of English at Lewis-Clark State College.