Earth apples = (Pommes des terre)
Subtitle: the poetry of Edward Abbey
By: collected and introduced by David Peterson ; illustrations by Michael McCurdy.
Contributors: Peterson, David, 1946-; Abbey, Edward, 1927-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Other titles: Earth apples.; Pommes des terres.
Description: Edward Abbey continues to grow in stature as one of America's funniest and most profound twentieth-century writers. Brooding, iconoclastic, prophetic, Abbey was principally known as a prose writer, the author of such legendary works as The Monkey Wrench Gang, Desert Solitaire, and The Brave Cowboy.

Although Abbey rarely published his poetry, he was, unbeknownst to his loyal and often fanatical public, a passionate producer of verse, and these seventy-one original poems - never before published in any form (although several were rejected by the leading magazines of the nation) - offer an insightful and wrenching look into the mind of this great man known to some as "Cactus Ed." To read these poems, all written between 1952 and 1989, and culled from his Journals, is to feel the ineffable, irrefutable essence of Edward Abbey.