One of the finest poets I've ever met personally is red hawk, whose work absolutely needs to be read by any seeker of enlightenment. He's no part time poet... he's held the Alfred Hodder Fellowship in the Humanities at Princeton University, and his first book, Journey of the Medicine Man , was a finalist for the Walt Whitman award of the Academy of American Poets. His second, The Sioux Dog Dance, was the runner-up for the Paterson Poetry Prize and was nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His work has garnered comparisons to Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and Walt Whitman.