While much attention focuses on the southern border of the United States, turns to the northeast, where Canada and New England share borders, blood, and heritage. The land is disputed in places, in others the US and Canada share responsibility, and Tribal Lands reside as sovereign nations within their borders. The poems, essays, and short stories in explore the things that divide, the bridges between, and the intense love of this rugged region the people hold in common. Edited by , authors of range from those for whom this book will be their first publication to a Pulitzer Prize nominee. They include: , , and many others. "...like pulling a deep, revivifying breath into the body." "...a book pulsing with the heartbeat of the land." "...a refreshing change from the literary and cultural barriers that we all too often allow to come between us." "Borderlines, figurative and literal, hum in the national and international consciousness with more volume right now. What unites and divides; what's shared and not; the power and complexity of lines drawn arbitrarily on a map. Distinctly of a place, this anthology achieves that rare straddle between timelessness and of-this-moment."