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Know Thyself - Joyce Peseroff Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts - J. Drew Lanham Vert: Poems - Catherine Staples
A collection of poems by Joyce Peseroff. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015. Paperback. 81 pp.
Here Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture of poetry and prose. With a refreshing balance of reverence and candor, he paints a unique portrait of the natural world. The resulting meditations are as honest as they are illuminating. Drew Lanham has been named the winner of the Henry David Thoreau Prize for literary excellence in nature writing in 2024.
Hub City Press, 2021. Hardcover, 94 pp.
Vert is an old word that, in English forest law, means "everything that grows and forms a green leaf, serving as cover for deer." Like Henry Thoreau, New England poet Catherine Staples lost her brother. Both survivors found their way by tuning ear, eye, and stride to "the living earth," a new way of seeing things.
Mercer University Press, 2024. Paperback, 82 pp.
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World - Ada Limon, ed. Devotions: The Selcted Poems of Mary Oliver - Mary Oliver
Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limon, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes -- both literal and literary -- are changing. The book features 50 previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets.
Milkweed Editions, 2024. Hardcover, 151 pp.
A definitive collection spanning more than five decades of this Pulitzer-Prize winning poet's esteemed and celebrated literary career. Arranged by Mary Oliver herself, this timeless volume showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. She provides us here with an invaluable collection of her passionate and perceptive observations of the natural world. Mary Oliver won the Henry David Thoreau Prize for literary excellence in nature writing in November 2018.
Penguin Press, 2017. Hardcover, 455 pp.