Plaintive Music

Poetry. "These are intellectual love poems—love for the planet, for human beings, for deep learning, and for understanding the earthy history of people and things. Affection resides here for the small details that will draw the reader from the personal to an expanding universe. The words sing of cells of human skin and heart, and cells of wood, plants, animals, frogs, and owls. Science and art are in harmony in this collection. If a poem falls unobserved, has a sound been made? Read the poems aloud or in silence, read them in the forest or in a library; lovely earth sounds abound!"—Judy Schaefer