"David Anthony Martin is a nature poet the way Frank O'Hara was a city poet. He has paid attention, assimilated the beauty and mystery of his surroundings, and let it color his poetry in delicate ways. He draws from dreams and folktale and myth. He contemplates streams and trees and bears. And he does it in language that is beguiling, sly and as lovely as a September peach. These are poems to carry in your metaphorical pocket like small runic stones, with lines that you will want to contemplate again and again. Span is ...
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"David Anthony Martin is a nature poet the way Frank O'Hara was a city poet. He has paid attention, assimilated the beauty and mystery of his surroundings, and let it color his poetry in delicate ways. He draws from dreams and folktale and myth. He contemplates streams and trees and bears. And he does it in language that is beguiling, sly and as lovely as a September peach. These are poems to carry in your metaphorical pocket like small runic stones, with lines that you will want to contemplate again and again. Span is delicious reading." Corey Mesler, author of Before the Great Troubling and Notes toward the Story and Other Stories "David Martin, a wilderness walker returning as the missing lynx in the lineage of nature based poetry heartbeating it's way into our gorges & forests - it has the aroma of wild mushrooms & the flow of a raging springmelt." Mike Parker, author of Don't Fall Off The Mountain and Wallflower Sutra
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