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With stunning clarity, these poems move from acute observation to an empathy, participation, and intimacy that continues Gibson's search to experience the one body of the world in direct encounter and to translate that encounter into words. As Emerson tells us, the Spirit moves throughout Nature and through us---our art is, therefore, second nature. Intro -- Contents -- I. SECOND NATURE -- Second Nature -- II. BECAUSE THE RELICT TRILLIUM, AND THE TANAGER, AND THE WREN -- Calling Her Out -- Spirit Jug -- Ode -- Her Voice, Half Hidden by the Leaves -- Speckled Lilies -- Global Warming -- Equilibrium -- Black Snake -- Coyote -- Doe in the Summer Glade -- Her Elegy -- Carve a Wooden Spool -- III. WHAT IS OFFERED -- In the Poet's House -- Chrístos and the Tomato -- Lessons -- Taking the Byzantine Path to Monastíri Aghíou Ioánnou -- Theológos -- Face to Face -- An Old Woman in Black -- Odd -- What Is Offered -- The Doves -- The Choice -- In the Poet's House -- IV. MANDALA ON A WALKING STICK -- One Finger -- Ice Light -- Museum Pieces -- Steadiness -- Seeing -- From the Very First, Not a Thing Is -- Zen Gardens -- On Balston Beach -- Meditation at Main Brook -- Dirt -- Notes in the Margin -- Mandala on a Walking Stick -- Notes and Dedications.
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