Surface impressions

by Stephen Sandy

"A poem of eight parts, Stephen Sandy's Surface Impressions offers a burst of invention, capacious enough for its grand themes of ecology, religion, and mortality, yet intimate and flexible in its constantly vibrant voice. The narrator moves through a widening landscape from New England to the cosmos itself, ruminating on the relation between his obsolescent, Romantic love of nature and the emptying of the cup of wildness in our time."--BOOK JACKET.