Field as Auditorium

The poems in this collection are superbly responsive to immediate and subtle points of contact with the earth. Cannily aware of the double-edgedness of language-how it can reveal, evoke, but also overlay place and its history-this writer trusts the poetry, going where it leads, even or especially when it attends to small things, ones that seem unimportant. That's where it becomes a resonant instrument, one that vibrates with larger issues as and when it finds the wavelength. Read this colle...