The poems of *My Wilderness* often take place on the wooded hillside in Oregon where Maxine Scates has lived since the mid-1970s. They chronicle how the woods, which were once a refuge, have turned into a landscape of change where trees once numerous are now threatened by storm and the presence of t
A never wilderness: poems
β Scribed by Roseanne Carrara
- Book ID
- 100362374
- Publisher
- Insomniac Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Toronto
- ISBN
- 1897178409
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β¦ Synopsis
In Roseanne Carrara's A Newer Wilderness, the world's rich and compelling past buckles and swells beneath our feet, and its abiding influence rises like geothermal steam into the present. Powerful voices from history and legend issue forth and mingle with our familiar, circadian surroundings. These poems serve to remind us that our future need not cost us our past, that our capacity for intellect need not diminish our basic humanity, and that civilizations need not be built at the expense of the natural environment in which they thrive.
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