The Fact of A Doorframe – Poem by Poem
THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME POEM BY POEM Storm Warnings The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument What winds are walking overhead, what zone Of gray unrest is moving across the land, I leave the book upon a pillowed chair And walk from window to closed window, watching […]
The Overstory
The Overstory A powerful novel of environmental concepts. During the decade before I retired, I often taught “Environmental Literature,” a capstone course for graduating seniors. Now, when I read a particularly thoughtful book about current land use issues, I wish I could talk with those eager students about how environmental concepts have advanced, or not, […]
Deep Creek
DEEP CREEK When I first read Pam Houston’s acerbic collection of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness, I recognized a writer who would have a long and successful career musing creatively about life and love. Five books and more than twenty-five years later, in her latest collection of essays, Houston stamps a coda on her […]
Anthill
Anthill – The late Edward O. Wilson’s novel look at myrmecology from the Florida panhandle to Mobile, Alabama, fiction as well as fascinating taxonomy. Noted biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson wrote one book he called a novel. I agree that Anthill is fiction, but I would characterize it as a taxonomy rather than […]