Reasons for Going It on Foot

As the title suggests, his new book explores territories, regions some of which are to be found on maps, local and foreign; some of which are found in moments of attention rather than places (the instant a salmon leaps); some of which are entered through human ("Sweat") or inhuman ("Answering Dance") rituals; some of which are discovered through those monuments of attention which are the works of an another's art; and some of which exist only in intimacy. There are landscapes, mindscapes, heartscapes in this very accomplished book, which bears strong evidence of the poet's preference for the natural world.