'Come here, join the protest' he invites. No poet currently working is more loyal to locale, his Jam Tree Gully, and yet none speaks as accurately from so many different geographies. 'Air shimmering with riot' ends a later poem, and between protest and riot Kinsella maps the living world onto a Mobius strip of poetry on which all things are ... Read morecontiguous and contingent. Nothing escapes his loving, ethical watching.
Bin Ramke, author of Missing the Moon Rooted in the homeopathy of 'fighting fire with fire,' John Kinsella's new book of poems is a how-to manual of care and caring: the care of his craft as a poet, the care for other persons near and far in time and space, and, above all, this true firebrand's care for the natural world-which reaches from his tender shepherding of the mice invading his cupboards to his concern for species yet unknown.
Susan Stewart, author of The Poet's Freedom Show Less