Simply Poetry with Tim Lehman
Channel: This House of Books
Date: 15/04/2020

Member-author and longtime supporter of This House of Books, Tim Lehman, reads selections by authors associated with the American west. He gives us a poem by Californian Mary Hunter Austin, and a poem by Grace Stone Coates, who lived in Martindale, Montana. He also presents two passage by John Muir, both of which reveal the heart of a poet but which, in fact, were written in prose.
Lehman is a professor of history at Rocky Mountain College. He is married to poet Danell Jones.

The selections are:
John Muir — first from Our National Parks, chapter 1, page 1; second - John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, (1938), page 438).
Mary Austin — Caller of Buffalo
Grace Stone Coates — Femme incomprise