Afterimage
Afterimageis an unsentimental but heartfelt elegy for the landscape and  the people of the twentieth-century Midwest.The poems preserve the lost place,  the lost time, and lost inhabitants, but Benjamin Vogt also celebrates the  earth'sown ability to flower and return, with human assistance and without.   These firm and carefully measured poemsare a thoughtful delight, one that  should not be missed.-- Andrew HudginsBenjamin Vogt's rich, transporting gift is to see deeply, generously  considering moments and scenes that preceded and sustainthe lives we  know, to dig curiously and calmly, alert for clues and remnants--to  harvest more than any seed promised.-- Naomi Shihab Nye