Forest of Ash offers to English language readers many of the oldest known fragments of poems and songs in Basque, bits and pieces of a distant time, place, and language. It is a collection of poems that can live, breathe, and speak to us now about the wars and conflicts that affected the Basques of the fifteenth century.
About the Author
David Romtvedt is the author of a dozen books of fiction, essays, and poetry, most recently Dilemmas of the Angels. His many honors and awards include fellowships in poetry and music from the National Endowment for the Arts. A winner of the National Poetry Series, he served as the poet laureate of Wyoming from 2003 to 2011.
