Home Front: Poems of the Bush II Years

In HOME FRONT, Leigh Herrick's first of two collections written during the beginning decade of the New Millennium, we are offered a landscape honed in scope and hauntingly beautiful, as the poet covers a global ground, communicating the immediacy of social and environmental concerns. As Scott Helmes has written of HOME FRONT, we are reminded that poetry can be relevant, and Herrick affirms that relevance through language's power and endurance.

Largely written after the September 11, 2001, at...