Series Editor: David Lehman; Guest Editor: Terence Winch
Our review: No need to include a publisher’s description this time — the title says it all. As you might guess, this is a wide-ranging anthology, covering a variety of tones, formats, and styles. It’s not strictly an environmental collection, but some elements of nature appear in many if not most of the poems. Sometimes it’s just a brief, poetic mention of magic or grief. Others reflect these crisis-filled times more directly, like “Climate Anxiety” by Patricia Davis-Muffett. The collection feels a bit more Western than Nature Matters (it does focus on American poetry, after all), but every poem lives up to its “best of” designation. (Available Sept. 2, 2025)
from July 30, 2025 – by John R. Platt
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