Cirque & Sky: Winner of the 2015 Fledge Poetry Chapbook Award

"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught."
~Baba Dioum, 1968

These poems honor and celebrate the natural world and re-enage the reader with nature in its renowned strengths, its intimate interpenetrations and its often overlooked fragility. Focusing completely on the environment of the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado, these pastoral and anti-pastoral poems resonate with the beauty and demise of our natural heritage.

With the environmental events of the Rocky Mountain West are serving as the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world, Cirque & Sky is an important text in the environmental literary canon of the American West.

"Evoking a 'periodic table of agitation' over the continued environmental plunder of Colorado and by extension the world, this powerful and beautiful book asks "How long before we are all fluent in earth?" It is a question for our times."
~John Calderazzo, author of Rising Fire: Volcanoes & Our Inner Lives