Praise for Orlando White from Arthur Sze:

”A poet is a maker, and, in The Art of Words, Orlando White, Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born from the Naakai Diné’e, delves into the spaces inside words and activates a Diné cosmology out of the tiniest spaces; so the space in a glottal stop lifts into air and forms an electron cloud; the Diné word for water emerges out of the syllabic space inside the English word, water; and balance and imbalance, hózh= and hóchx-’, pivot around the invisible north star of an o. This is a stunning book that irrevocably changes our experience of language and makes us see the world with fresh eyes.”

Orlando White is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e. He is the author of two books of poetry, Bone Light (Red Hen Press, 2009), which Kazim Ali described as a “careful excavation on language and letters and the physical body” and LETTERRS (Nightboat Books, 2015) which received the Poetry Center Book Award. His poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies such as diSONARE, Poetry Magazine, When The Light Of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature and elsewhere. White teaches at Diné College located on the Navajo reservation.