Calendar Wood

Ann Emmons

Children's Books

Wayfarer Books

Icon of environmental consciousness, independent living, and social justice, Henry David Thoreau has probably generated more poems about him than any other secular individual. Beginning with his contemporaries and continuing today, they illustrate our changing views of the man in a passionate form of expression rich in emotion and meaning. A whole library of books has been written about Thoreau, but maybe poetry best explains why his legacy is both enduring and endearing.

Echoes From Walden: Poems Inspired by Thoreau's Life and Work

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Facing Aridity by Diana Woodcock features poems inspired by research expeditions and residencies in Alaska, the Arctic Circle, the Everglades, and southern Africa; and by fifteen years spent living in Arabia. Tinged with sorrow, they offer hope as they wring out lyrical beauty from the beleaguered yet resilient natural world. Rooted in truth, they zoom in closely on the negative effects of human activity before panning back out to celebrate earth's grand design. The poet here, serving as witness to climate change while advocating for preservation and conservation, invites readers to open themselves to earth's suffering-to global sorrow-in order to transform and be transformed.

Facing Aridity: Poems

Diana Woodcock

What is the embodied shape of memory? How is it cared for and set down into the hearts of future generations? Where lives the land of forgetting? Throughout these poems, April Tierney weaves together personal, collective, ancestral, and land-based memory into a single, glistening cloth. She courts the cultural necessity of tending to what might otherwise be lost, by writing her way into the past as a prayer for what is yet to come.

Memory Keeper: Poems

Tierney, April

Religion & Spirituality

Slouching Toward Radiance

Product Description Slouching Toward Radiance is a collection of nature poetry, meditations, gentle advice, and nudges toward reflection. It's the sort of poetry that anyone can read, even people who don't like poetry- a book that can be picked up and paged through to whatever sections fit for the day or season of life. Heidi Barr's words are worthy companions on the way toward living a life steeped in integrity and compassion for one's fellow beings-from the human down the street to a deer in the forest. It's a walk through a metaphorical day, from dawn to dusk, noticing the holy ordinary even through storms, by way of solitude and community. It's an invitation to start where you are, to find beauty and healing in the everyday stuff of life, and to make the choices that lead to fully living in the ways that work best.Part invitation, part musing, part blessing, Slouching Toward Radiance is a call to show up to life in the way that works best for you. You get to decide what to do with the words on the pages. Wherever the words land, and however you decide to respond to them, you may just find it's possible to find renewal in the ordinary dance of living. Review This is a collection of poems and thoughts that call to the Outliers; the ones who stoop low to see the wonder hidden beneath an autumn leaf. I have walked with a reverence through this collection, and I was not left untouched by a single poem. In a voice reminiscent of Mary Oliver, Heidi invites the reader to live their life open to the infinite possibility of beauty finding them everywhere. A book to treasure. -Liezel Graham, author of Stripped and A Counting of LoveIn Slouching Toward Radiance, Barr's presence is felt as an attentive, compassionate mind at work to convey the essence of life. She's taking on the big stuff-happiness, contentment, tension, joy-with poetry punctuated by novel ideas and unexpected, arresting phrases.-Laurie Allmann, author of An Hour From NowHeidi Barr's Slouching Toward Radiance is a poetic exhortation. She nudges readers out of nostalgia and drops us into the present moment so we can exist "one choice, one breath, one [heart]beat / at a time." Grounded in nature, Barr's work exudes an elemental way of knowing and draws wisdom from observation. She eschews exotic flora and fauna found only in small pockets of our planet and turns, instead, to images accessed in the "holy ordinary" rain, stars, seeds, birds. Didactic in purpose, Barr's poems call readers to a "purposeful joy," ask us to do what we "are made to do," and invite us to join her by "walking through words into wonder." Pay attention, Barr says, to shifts in seasons, to snowflakes, to "skin meeting air." Read this lovely collection. We all need her blessing: "May You Always" / Listen to the story / in the cracked coffee mug." -Christine Stewart-Nuñez, 2019/20 Poet Laureate of South Dakota & author of The Poet & The Architect

Barr, Heidi

Sojourners explores and contrasts the promise and the reality of life in the country and in the city, each with its set of wonders and disappointments, beauty and hardship. The wilderness and natural world inspire, frighten, and challenge us. The city's opportunities, structures, and support of society excite and embolden, but ultimately may fail us. We must always find a new beginning. The collection abounds with multisensory poetry that evokes feelings of hope, loss, humor, and sadness. Poems weave throughout ornate landscapes to create sentimental, permanent memories of family and belonging, of culture and home.

Sojourners: Poems

Jarvis, Andrew

Following the release of her micro-memoir, To Lose the Madness, and the TEDx Talk at Yale University based on her life, Browning returns from a six-year poetic silence with, Drive through the Night. Raw, gritty, lonesome, and stunningly authentic-we pick up Browning's trail at mid-life as the poet reflects on her journey through her major relationships, both with lovers and self.The map of these poems traces the poet's journey of overcoming and re-becoming while simultaneously set against the iconic backdrop of the American Southwest. In her words, "These poems and ponderings were written across the nights-while traveling the distance between who I was expected to become and who I authentically (irrevocably) am."In Drive Through the Night, we follow the trail of an orphan-turned-vagabond who left behind the white picket fence for the open range and open road.

Drive Through the Night: A Poetic Memoir on Taming, Reclaiming & Becoming Wild

Self-Help

Browning, L.M.

Death & Grief

Flight Feathers is a collection steeped in remembrance. Avian flight feathers are anchored to bone with ligaments to offer courageous lift of wings. In a traumatic time of poly crisis and upheaval, Gwendolyn Morgan's poetry illuminates natural landscapes, brings us to renewed hope. In a season of transition, we are offered a place to honor our collective grief and gratitude.

Flight Feathers: Poems

Morgan, Gwendolyn

Writing the Significant Soil by David Anthony Sam explores the long relationship of human life with nature without sentimentality or the cold distance of the clinical eye. Sam's poems reveal his own close connection with the Appalachian Mountains and the red clay of the MidAtlantic and Virginia as he searches for meaning in the act of living on and with the land by using the poetic ink he makes from the soil. The history of Virginia, bled into the earth by war and human struggle to live, interplays with the war we have made against nature and the land. The collection admits the danger we humans impose on the natural world while revealing a simple faith that that natural world will abide even as we as individuals give our identity back into the land we sprang from. The soil is significant in and of itself as life-giving place and because of our history of living on it.

Writing the Significant Soil

Sam, David Anthony

We are the only beings on earth who intrinsically wonder about our own end. But is there a way to elicit more elegant, gentle questions? Maybe something finer can be imparted, a way to bring the inevitable grief this life holds, into the love it really is. In this lyrical essay, poetry and the beauty of dreams mingle with remembrance. Journey from a child's view of life's end to a perspective in time much closer to that end, and something as familiar as an old friend comes into focus, greets us, and teaches us its ways.

Around the Forever Bend: Remembrances of Wondering What Lies Beyond Death

Drew, Stephen

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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