Book excerpt: Muscogee (Creek) writer Alexander Posey (1873-1908), a trailblazing journalist, humorist, and poet, wrote one of the largest bodies of American Indian poetry of his time and also produced some of the most intriguing journals to arise from the late Indian Territory period. As the first complete, accurate, and accessible collection of Posey's verse and non-fiction works, this edition recovers, as much as possible, his original creative intentions, making his writing available to a wider audience of both scholarly and non-academic readers. Whenever possible, the texts housed in this collection are based on Posey's original manuscripts, or---in the case of several poems---the last versions published during his lifetime.