"This various and vital collection in which articulate engagement with the sensual stuff of the natural world coexists with philosophic riffs on the meaning of night scents, stars, fireflies, and even family history is a brave, various, adventurous book that reveals with the tang of clear, immediate speech a poet in the fully earned maturity of his powers."—Eamon Grennan
Brian Swann is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, children's books, and poetry in translation. He has also edited several anthologies of Native American literature. He teaches at Cooper Union in New York City.
October 2016
