Peeling away stereotypes with knife-sharp images, Elizabeth Schultz's collection of poems opens up the Kansas landscape to reveal astonishing complexities and subtleties. These poems dazzle the senses, breathing life not only into plants and animals, but also into seasons and the sky. For readers familiar with America's heartland as well as for those unfamiliar with it, THE SAUNTERING EYE becomes a necessary guide to seeing more fully and more deeply, to envisioning this and other landscapes as myriad-layered, connected to the remote past as well as to a perplexing future.

The White-Skin Deer: Hoopa Stories follows the Mammoth Publication mission of recovering histories. It is a first-hand, fictionalized account of tribal elders' stories, written by a sincere and respectful non-Native woman, Elizabeth Schultz. Schultz wrote these stories based on her experiences living on the Hoopa Valley Tribe's land during the 1950s. This was a time period when Bureau of Indian Affairs policies of assimilation were at their height. Their boarding elementary and high schools actively worked against Native cultural practices, including Native language, ceremonies, economic systems, and kinship responsibilities. Like all good fiction, these stories prompt reflection. Embedded within them are the conflicts facing most American tribal peoples at that time.

In the aftermath of the Pacific War and Japan's capitulation, Mrs Yumi Goto and her family lived in the small community of Muramatsu, where they had relocated to get away from Tokyo. Yumi Goto was an English speaking graduate of one of Japan's top universities for women, and when a contingent of American soldiers was sent to Muramatsu as a garrison force, she became an interpreter. The sudden influx of more than 1,800 Americans into a rural Japanese community was potentially traumatic, and their imminent arrival made the townspeople "depressed and fearful". To everyone's surprise, they found the soldiers to be "open-hearted and humane", and the two sides coexisted peacefully. Those Days in Muramatsu is a testimony to the capacity of ordinary people from vastly different backgrounds to coexist harmoniously, even in the aftermath of war.