Rogers, Pattiann

It’s easy to get lost in Rogers’s lush language, but there are larger issues here that will make the book appealing not just to poetry readers but to anyone concerned with the environment.

What readers will know throughout these poems is how deeply Rogers sees, how humanely she views the world above, below, and the spaces that reside between her. "Still …catch that ring/ of blossoms, lift it up, wear/ its beauty…. Look into a mirror./ See what you can see."