My take away from this poetry book was that I want to find out if I can buy any of the illustrations. The way that the landscapes of the southwest are illustrated in this book is immaculate, it's like I'm looking out into my local desert or mountains. I can relate to how appreciative the Navajo are of their surroundings. ( )

Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa by Shonto Begay is a collection of poetry and artwork that describes his life as a Diné. The poems are chronological as well as thematic, introducing his personal history, the Diné culture and beliefs and the balance between traditional and modern life.

While the poetry is beautiful, it was Shonto's paintings that I kept coming back to. While rich in the details of the mesa, they also have details more subtly worked in. There might be horses or other animals in the shapes of the snow patches, for instance. Stylistically his art work reminds me of Rob Gonsalves's surreal paintings. ( )

This book is about experiencing daily life on the Navajo Indian Reservation. About the rich cultures and beliefs.

Shonto Begay's art and poetry depict his memories of life on a Navajo reservation. He brings both his heritage and his ability to see that world as an outsider (due to his enforced time away at a government school) into his work.

The book has a large amount of poems about the Indian tribe Navajo. I will talk about two poems i read. First Echoes is about he very first Indian people who were hear and how we know about them through there echoes.The second poem is about a Navajo Mother kitchen and how her life is involved in the kitchen.

I feel relation in the story because i am always in the kitchen and my family is Mian. Therefore the two tribe are indian and are kinda similar.

I would use the story in my class room to show the children multicultural traditions and to give them some poetry from the book. I would write one poem line a day and have the class rewrite the poem in there peom journal.