Zachary Bos
Some New & Recommended Reading

What I've been reading recently on the theme of "man and nature"...

• Back on the Fire: Essays by Gary Snyder (Counterpath, 2008) 
• Wild Apples, a new journal devoted to "art, nature and inquiry" (2008) 
• Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, children's verse by Joyce Sidman with illustrations by Beth Krommes (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) 
• Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press, 2007)
• Woodlands by naturalist Oliver Rackham, published as the 100th volume in Collins' "New Naturalist" series (2006) 
• A Coast of Trees by A.R. Ammons (Norton, 1981, reissued 2002) 
• Wild Animals I Have Known, by Ernest Thompson Seton, originally published by Charles Scribner & Sons in 1912, and now available from reprint publisher Yesterday's Classics. Also offered are several titles by Clara Dillingham Pierson, including Among the Pond People, originally published by E.P. Dutton & Co. in 1901 with illustrations by F.C. Gordon. 
• Jef Taylor blogs as "The Urban Pantheist" at http://urbpan.livejournal.com.
• Archipelago: Portraits of Life in the World's Most Remote Island Sanctuary by David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton (National Geographic, 2005) 
• American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, edited by Bill McKibben (Library of America, 2008) 
• The Spring of Joy: Nature Essays by Mary Webb (Dodo Press, 2008) 
• Deserts: A Literary Companion, edited by Wayne Grady (Greystone, 2008) 
• Open Wide a Wilderness, an anthology of Canadian nature poetry edited by Nancy Holmes, published by (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008) 
• Readers can now find many out-of-print title at Google Books, including Fir Flower Tablets a collection of versions of Chinese poems which Amy Lowell based on translations by Florence Ayscough (Houghton Mifflin, 1921)
• Toad to a Nightingale, light verse by Brad Leithauser, with illustrations by his brother Mark Leithauser (Godine, 2007)
• Birds, Beasts and Flowers by D.H. Lawrence (Godine, 2007)

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