Homebound Publications | 2021 | 245 pages | ISBN 978-1-0880-0438-8
See Henry David Thoreau in a Whole New Way: Through the Eyes of Poets
Icon of environmental consciousness, independent living, and social justice, Henry David Thoreau has probably generated more poems about him than any other secular individual. Beginning with his contemporaries and continuing today, they illustrate our changing views of the man in a passionate form of expression rich in emotion and meaning. A whole library of books has been written about Thoreau, but maybe poetry best explains why his legacy is both enduring and endearing. From Louisa May Alcott to William Butler Yeats to Mary Oliver, readers will find poems in three centuries that are both moving and thought provoking.
What People are Saying About this Book
"Including poetry across the centuries, Echoes from Walden demonstrates the lasting significance of Thoreau's life's work. By turns retrospective and forward-looking, socially engaged and deeply connective, these poems verify what we knew to be true: the man who retreated briefly to a pond contemplated thoughts long relevant to us all."
Rochelle L. Johnson, President The Thoreau Society
"David Leff’s anthology of poems offers not a new window into Thoreau but dozens of them, each a dazzling refraction of Thoreau’s own luminous words. The selections in this volume range widely in both time and theme, but they share with Thoreau a commitment to the precisely observed detail and a predilection for the wild. If Thoreau’s great gift was to help his readers see the world anew, this volume makes us keenly aware of how many different lives Thoreau has touched across the decades and around the world, how far and wide the light reflected from Walden Pond has traveled."
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