(Graphic courtesy of Rick Steber)
Some creatures simply cross the land. Raven crosses something deeper — slipping between the world we know and the one just beyond, carrying wisdom in one wing and mischief in the other.
Guiding the journey is acclaimed Western author and poet Rick Steber, whose voice can be sly and unsparing one moment, tender and profound the next. Along the way, he explores ravens and ancestors, loneliness and belonging, and the people who came before us—and those who remain.
Part folklore, part meditation, part love letter to the wild West, Raven Speaks invites us to look again at the black-winged creature watching from a fencepost, treetop, or winter sky. Sometimes, those things we think we realize are the very things that are trying to tell us something.
Rick Steber is one of the most respected voices chronicling the American West. With more than 50 published books and worldwide sales exceeding two million copies, he is the only writer to have won both the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur Award and the Grand Prize for Best Book from the International Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Five of his books have been optioned for film. A poet and keen observer of the frontier’s transformation, Steber crafts bold, evocative narratives often compared to the works of Stegner, Hemingway, Steinbeck and McMurtry.