David Wagoner

"Lost" is a window into Native American wisdom, translated by the poet David Wagoner. Perhaps, it is advice to youth who are beginning forays into the forest alone. But the poem speaks also to a universal human experience, a feeling of disorientation in a wilderness of sensations, impressions, desires, and demands. Before we discover our place in the world, our true nature and purpose in a living cosmos, we are truly lost. The counsel of the elders...

Young Danny's father was known as "the greatest escape artist, second only to Houdini." When Danny leaves home to follow in his father's footsteps, he finds himself in trouble with a small town's corrupt mayor and the mayor's conniving son in this touching family comedy.