The Language of Water and Grass

"By turns contemplative and exultant, Judson McGehee's poetry explores the most central of human preoccupation--our relationship to the natural word. The poems collected in The Language of Water and Grass, written over a span of sixty years, form a tapestry displaying the poet's evolution and varying influences, from the romanticism of William Wordsworth and the philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, to the wonder of Mary Oliver and the mysticism of W.S. Merwin"--