Description: A sequence of poems and prose questions that explore the many facets of our dwelling on earth.
Brief description: Scott Edward Anderson is the author of Fallow Field (Aldrich Press, 2013) and Walks in Nature's Empire (The Countryman Press, 1995). He has been a Concordia Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and received the Nebraska Review Award. His work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Many Mountains Moving, Terrain, and the anthologies Dogs Singing (Salmon Poetry, 2011) and The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody, 2013), among other publications. Anderson founded TheGreenSkeptic.com, which he wrote for ten years, worked for The Nature Conservancy from 1992-2007, and currently consults with conservation organizations and cleantech companies. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Samantha, and their blended family. Learn more about his work at ScottEdwardAnderson.com and connect with him on Twitter @greenskeptic.
Review Quotes:
"In the spirit of Gary Snyder's Turtle Island and The Practice of the Wild, Scott Edward Anderson leads us on a journey into place and the idea of place . . . driven by the burning questions of how we find a home on this planet, in this transient, often brutal world, and how we heal through home."
-- David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains and Return of the Osprey
"With the timelessness of art and the urgency of urban design, Scott Edward Anderson creates an ideal mixed-use development of poetry, ecology, philosophy, and ethics suffused by psalm, elegy, meditation, and ode. . . . Anderson essays his own poetics of space, and in doing so he ushers us -- 'diving deep/ into the soil and breathing it all in' -- into the home of this world."
-- Laura-Gray Street, author of Pigment and Fume and co-editor of The Ecopoetry Anthology
"In an age defined by too much thoughtless building, Anderson returns poetry to its ancient vocation of saving, healing, giving back."
-- Jonathan Skinner, founder and editor of ecopoetics