In the Garden

"These well-wrought, eloquent poems carry the reader through the seasonal labors and joys of gardening, at times touching on personal, political, and spiritual matters. The rituals and sharply observed sensual details of soil, bud, and bloom, of insect, bird, and animal life, root the poems firmly in both garden and world. The poems surprise and delight as they explore these connections, sometimes treating dark truths but always finding compensatory implications in the human and natural orders."—Graham Duncan.