Description: A compendium of poems about the Western United States by the esteemed poet William Pitt Root
Brief description: WILLIAM PITT ROOT now writes full-time in the San Juan mountains of southwest Colorado. For a decade he commuted weekly between Tucson, where he was poet laureate 1997-2001, and Manhattan, where he taught at Hunter College. Root's other works include The Storm and Other Poems (2005/1969) and Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom (Notable Book for 1995, The Nation) which re-collects his first five books. His work appears in The Atlantic, New Yorker, APR, The Nation, in hundreds of litmags and anthologies, and in nearly twenty languages.