Our sincere thanks to Tom Montgomery Fate for his insightful review of THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES: POEMS ON AMERICA’S LANDS, WATERS, WILDLIFE, and to Elizabeth Jacobson, Reviews Editor at Terrain for her support. An excerpt follows:
What readers will find is that this “joyful resistance” springs from the poets’ radical attentiveness to the world around them—a sparkling vitality that pulses through every line. Their language miraculously awakens the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers: to bees and bark and bears.