Zachary Bos
Some New & Recommended Reading
What I've been reading recently on the theme of "man and nature"...
- The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. $15.00 from Picador, 2007. A hypothetical but well-researched account of a global
ecoystem without humanity (though not an inhumane one).
- Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century by Bernard W. Quetchenbach. $19.50 from University of Virginia Press, 2000. Wherein close attention is
paid to the nature poetry of Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, and
Wendell Berry.
- Reign of Snakes by Robert Wrigley. $18.00 from Penguin, 1999.
- Carolina Ghost Woods: Poems by Judy Jordan. $16.95 from Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
- Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006 by E.O Wilson. $35.00 from Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. A
collection of articles and scientific papers by one of the
country’s most revered living biologists.
- Egg & Nest by Rosamond Purcell. $39.95 from Belknap Press, 2008.
Purcell’s beautiful photography of rare and common eggs
makes this history of egg-collecting a rare pleasure.
- The Dream We Carry: selected and last poems of Olav Hauge. $18.00 from Copper Canyon Press, 2008. Bilingual edition of the
Norwegian poet who earned his living as a farmer and
gardener in the fjord reigon of western Norway.
- Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Marianne Moore
and Elizabeth Mayer. $12.95 from New York Review Books
Classics, 2008. W. H. Auden, in his introduction, writes: “a
quiet and beautiful parable about the relation of people to
places, of man to nature.” Reviewed in The New York Sun (to
which excellent publication we bid a sorry farewell).
- The Passionate Gardener by Rudolf Borchardt, translated by Henry
Martin. $30.00 from McPherson, 2006. Reviewed in Third
Coast by Diether Haenicke.
- Life, A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey. $15.95 from Vintage, 1999. The author
quotes from yeats and Browning, and incorporates Lewis
Carroll’s “hunting of the snark” and Edward Lear’s wonderful
poems of nonsense botany.
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