First full poetry collection by Ellen Waterston includes a number of selections from I AM MADAGASCAR, winner of the 2005 Willa Award from Women Writing the West. First edition trade paper. "The music of Ellen Waterston's language in BETWEEN DESERT SEASONS is touching and vibrant, fiery raw and refined, reined in and set free." -- Pattiann Rogers, author of WAYFARE "The poems in this collection search for a way beyond loneliness of self first by naming that loneliness and then by threading connections to the multi-layered world beyond the self..." -- Wendy Mnookin, author of THE MOON MAKES ITS OWN PLEA "Ellen Waterston gives us the key to her heart: mother, daughter, loyal friend, stubborn lover, fancy dancer, and it hurts so good." -- Linda Hussa, author of TOKENS IN AN INDIAN GRAVEYARD "Ellen Waterston's new poems come from years of living in a desert of high revelation... [Her] poems create an oasis for all of us -- a clear, remote, and vital spring, a woman's life beyond any macho western settler's museum or mirage." -- George Venn, General Editor of the Oregon Literature Series and author of WEST OF PARADISE