Science and Steepleflower: Poetry by Forrest Gander
His poetry has been called desperately beautiful by Thom Gunn in Agni Review, and original and fascinating by John Ashbery. With poems in the leading journals of the day -- American Poetry Review, Grand Street, Conjunctions, The Boston Review, to name just a few -- Gander plumbs the erotic depths of human interaction with the land. The poems in Science & Steepleflower test this relationship with what Publisher's Weekly has called an inbred (and often haunting) spirituality, bringing us to new vistas of linguistic and perceptive grace.