What nature
Subtitle: poems
By: Steve Fay.
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Middle West -- Poetry; Landscape -- Middle West -- Poetry; Nature -- Poetry
Description: Steve Fay's What Nature brings a naturalist's attentiveness to poetry.

Central to What Nature is "The Milkweed Parables," a long, atmospheric poem dealing with issues of nature, lineage, family, and history. As rich and sweeping as a novella, this remarkable poem is an inquiry into the interdependence of human life and the natural world.

Showing startling range - poems that move from political satire to portraits of loneliness and regret to humorthese poems form a multidimensional meditation on the relationship of man to nature, and as such are a unique contribution to the canon of contemporary poetry.