The Quiet Eye: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Nature, is the latest anthology published by the Laurel Poetry Collective, a gathering of Minnesota poets and artists dedicated to publishing beautiful and affordable books. In this work, the Collective's 13 poets accept the challenge to address themselves as poets and citizens of the world to a the broad topic of nature.
Heraclitus said, Nature loves to hide; -- and so these poets sent out their own small search parties, scouting out a surprising variety of pathways to nature's keep. With a quiet eye, observations were brought into clarity, turned this way and that, and brought home to this book. The environment and its perils sit shoulder to shoulder with the beautiful and the spiritual. Hope, most of all, stands behind these efforts.
Included in this book are poems by Lisa Ann Berg, Annie Breitenbucher, Margot Fortunato Galt, Ann Iverson, Mary Junge, Joyce Kennedy, Ilze Klavina Mueller, Eileen O'Toole, Tom Ruud, Su Smallen, Suzanne Swanson, Nancy Walden, and Nolan Zavoral. All have published books available through Amazon.com.
