Rutherford Livingston Ashley, of the Navajo people, presents a scrapbook of 201 poems that take snapshots of what is the Navajo experience, from being too young for preschool in the 1970s, to dealing with aspects of Navajo identity, the work is like a partial family photo album. The first book of a trilogy of modified limerick poems, this first collection is the formative prelude to an exercise in using form and the structure of language to begin to piece one’s perspective back together, even if the images come through a narrative lens that may or may not be a natural flow; as the work is a step to observing one’s self and the world through a more clearer lens. and “I wrote this first collection as not to offend anyone, and ” says the author, and the inclination that there are eggshells to have been avoided in the framework of the narrative flow does comment on how, in Native America and society in general, people speak and communicate in safe zones. In summary, A Navajo scrapbook also deals with Navajo identity, especially as it was conceived at the dawn of 2013. The book is an easy read that takes you from point to point to develop the and “muse and ” of Basil, and the antithesis of Basil, which is the demonstrated by Basil’s conflicted identity in a changing world. A good prelude to the in-progress limerick trilogy.

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