Middle Fork Canyon and Other Poems
Publisher: Blue Oak Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Sattley, California
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 71
Description: [From the Preface:] The land itself comprises the single greatest poem. The forms and processes of terrestrial existence are about us always, speaking always, and capable of telling us more about themselves and about ourselves than all of the human poems ever written--for the forms of the land are inscribed with a hieroglyphic, so to speak, which both invites and challenges us to read it. ... The poet, insofar as ability allows, makes a translation of something of the microscopic portion of which he or she is aware.... [These poems are translations of that sort. The following are lines from the first poem, "The Man Who Hears Voices":] The earth speaks through me-- / I am its instrument: / I move about on the earth / and I look closely, / I listen to the small sounds of day and night, / And I immerse myself in the sun and the moon.
Table of contents: title: Preface 9; title: 28 poems