A collection of Parks' poetry and photography.

The best contemporary American poets are represented in this essential anthology.

John Freeman explores how parks--tiny microcosims of the world--are simultaneously natural and constructed, exclusionary and open, welcome and threatening.

"In Cecily Parks' beautiful poems, the natural world teeters between being and seeming—the seeming a simulacrum projected onto the world by a mind's yearning,

In 1925, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house an