“Scott Edward Anderson's poems honor the reality that the things of the world – rye grass, fall warblers, ravens, owls, ‘Sargassum drifting/ in a pelagic wave,’ lover and sourdough bread – speak to and for our innerness. Here the sense of place is not simply a matter of geography, but of feeling one's way into that sense of becoming that makes one's path clear. The book's fourth section is comprised of poems that beautifully embrace the very human need to join the inner and outer, a territory defined, as the poem titles suggest, by ‘Becoming,’ ‘Shapeshifting,’ ‘Culitvating,’ ‘Mapping,’ and ‘Healing.’ Guided since childhood, as the book's closing long poem relates, by nature's teaching, Anderson is devoted to finding the words for what it means to dwell mindfully among others on the wounded earth.” – Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Rope: Poems "I was impressed by Anderson’s engagement with nature -- especially the way in which his lyrical lines sketch the profound relationship between humans and their environment." – Jonathan Galassi, author of Left-handed: Poems

Fallow Field

Literature & Fiction

Anderson, Scott Edward

Poetry

Aldrich Press

Falling Up is a moving personal essay about the struggle to become an authentic, vulnerable, purpose-driven man in the 21st century and, ultimately, about making one’s dream a reality. Along the way, award-winning poet, Scott Edward Anderson learns to see the world anew through the eyes of his children, through a deep engagement with the natural world, and through learning―and teaching others―to tell stories in a more personal way. Falling Up is a late bloomer’s coming-of-age story as much as it is a book about choice, intention, and commitment.

Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Parenting & Relationships

Little Bound Books

A sequence of poems and prose questions, Dwelling: an ecopoem began as a conversation with Martin Heidegger's essay "Building Dwelling Thinking" and became an expansive journey into the notion of home. With sharp focus, at once moving and lyric, Scott Edward Anderson explores the many facets of our dwelling on earth by drawing upon elements of nature, community, place, and love. Along the way, Anderson considers the impact of language, writing, displacement, and the city as ecosystem, ultimately concluding, "Home or the idea of home haunts us . . . we are always searching for it, for the way 'back home.' All we can do is try to make it, try to bring forth home as dwelling."

Dwelling: an ecopoem

Shanti Arts LLC

Review\n"Scott Edward Anderson's Wine-Dark Sea is both a summing up of his remarkable journeys in poetry and a setting out on new adventures, where he explores 'the latitudes of love, / and gravity of longevity.' From Brooklyn to Indonesia, Alaska to his beloved Azores, he discovers new ways to celebrate the things of the earth, memorialize what remains transitory, and seek those 'voices, / which you can still hear/ echoing over centuries of stone.'" 
-Christopher Merrill, author of Flares\n"Anderson's lyric themes are timeless: myth, romantic love, nature, and our search for meaning in the quotidian, but his touch is light. He takes fully to heart Frost's proposition that a poem 'begins in delight and ends in wisdom, ' making this rich New & Selected both deeply pleasurable and instructive. The generous opening poem alone is intoxicating and evocative . . . " 
-Kathy Fagan, author of Sycamore 
"In shorter lyrics, longer meditations, traditional forms, and experimental poems, Anderson aims for the deep dive into a thing . . . he also explores the currents of desire, language, and heritage in a way that is as informed as it is accessible and openly vulnerable. The history, literature, science, and philosophy that layer these poems make this collection a rich and beautiful invitation to consider how our own sense of place and identity informs our relationship with the living world." 
-Derek Sheffield, author of Not for Luck\nIn Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations, award-winning poet and translator Scott Edward Anderson brings together a body of over thirty new poems written over the past decade, with older poems that have not appeared in collections before, as well as selections from his earlier works, Fallow Field and 30-Day Poems, the latter previously available only on the Internet. This book also includes a generous sampling of the poet's translations of poems by important Portuguese poets ranging from Fernando Pessoa and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen to Vitorino Nemesio and Angela de Almeida. Wine-Dark Sea gathers in one volume nearly all the poems outside of Anderson's two book-length sequences, Dwelling: an ecopoem and Azorean Suite/Suite Açoriana, that the poet has published or produced over the past 35 years, demonstrating the precision and range of his poetic vision.

Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations

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Fallow Field

Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Dwelling: an ecopoem

Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations