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Shauna Potocky's book calls us to join her travels through public lands that await us, know us and are part of us-trails, crevices, rivers, animals and mountain peaks. The fauna and the flora in each poem are a discovery, a relationship, a new life and an enlightenment. You will breathe deeply as you trek through her poems and drawings. You will become part of the earth's true life, you will want to leave behind the manufactured freeze-dried urban-scapes. You will be at peace. Every poem is a new height, an unexpected vista, proof of her deep knowledge and love for the environment and its wiggly lives and grand miracles. The poems and drawings, the trails and compassion all lead us to a magnificent dawn indeed. This is a most necessary collection and a sure prize-winner. -Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, Emeritus Yosemite Dawning is an epic love poem for Yosemite National Park. These are not sentimental lines but rather a caretaker's loving astonishment of Nature with one eye towards environmental despair and the other towards hope. The poet finds a legacy among the park's jagged peaks: Every route, they say, is a signature line. -Tawhida Tanya Evanson, author of Book of Wings Shauna Potocky's new collection, Yosemite Dawning, brims with lyrical descriptions of one of the nation's greatest treasures, its imagery blessing both those who have experienced Yosemite firsthand and those who may now do so by reading this exquisite book of poetry. At once an accomplished collection and a call to environmental awareness and appreciation for the natural world, Yosemite Dawning will enjoin readers in newfound appreciation for this particular treasure as well as all our natural wonders. -Marcia Meier, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award winner and author of Face, A Memoir Yosemite Dawning by Shauna Potocky is a beautiful collection of poems that honors the earth and the land. These are poems that celebrate the ways in which nature reveals its beauty and wonders to those who observe carefully. Her words and language are prayers and hymns to the mysteries that too many of us miss or take for granted in our day to day lives, revealing the existence of natural phenomena that infuse our world with mystery and beauty. Her words allow us to witness the transformation that can take place when we are thoughtful stewards of the natural world, when we are alive to everything that surrounds us outdoors. -Patricia A. Smith, author of The Year of Needy Girls

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