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After spending a year researching and describing the devastation of
mountaintop removal in his bestselling book, Lost Mountain, Erik Reece
wanted to contribute something beautiful to the world. Field Work: Modern
Poems from Eastern Forests is an anthology of poems about the landscape and
ecology of the eastern United States. Field Work brings together a host
of nationally recognized modern American poets, plus four classical Chinese
poets, who wandered and wrote about an area of southeastern China that is
remarkably similar in landscape and ecology to the eastern woodlands of the
United States.
Poets included: A. R. Ammons, Alvin Aubert, Wendell Berry, David
Budbill, Hayden Carruth, James Baker Hall, Robert Frost, Jane Kenyon, John Lane,
Denise Levertov, Davis McCombs, Jim Wayne Miller, Lorine Niedecker, Thorpe Moeckel,
Mary Oliver, James Still, Richard Taylor, Roberta Hill Whiteman, Charles Wright,
James Wright.
Erik Reece teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.
His work has appeared in Harper's, Orion, and The Oxford
American, among other publications. He is the recipient of the Sierra
Club's David R. Brower Award and Columbia University's 2005 John B. Oakes Award
for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. A collection of poems, A Short
History of the Present, is forthcoming.
