num_pages: 39
description: These spare, haunting poems evoke the lost towns and villages that were flooded in the 1930's to create the Quabbin Reservoir in Western Massachusetts to provide drinking water for Boston. Interspersed with the poems are the voices of "survivors" who comment on what was lost and gained, and the lyric voice of the poet who meditates on her own ties to this wilderness area. Jane Brox writes in the Foreword, "...these poems attain a seamlessness not only between the past and present, but between personal and public as well, a seamlessness that is succinct, powerful, and entirely essential."No Simple Wilderness has been used as a text for college courses that explore the connection between poetry, the environment,and history. It is available through the author's website:http://www.gailthomaspoet.com
language: English
title: No Simple Wilderness
titlecomplete: No Simple Wilderness
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Haley's