Synopses & Reviews
“One can only wish for more poets like David Lee.”—Chowder Review
Set in the American Southwest, So Quietly the Earth is a book of landscape meditations on philosophical, theological and environmental issues. Radically departing from his justly famous narratives of rural life, David Lee weaves the archetypal elements of earth, fire, water, and air throughout his poems as he explores spiritual connections to the natural world.
David Lee, author of 15 books of poems, was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate and in 2001 was a finalist for the United States Poet Laureate. A former seminary candidate, semi-pro baseball player and hog farmer, he recently retired as the head of the languages and literature department at Southern Utah University.
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Landscape meditations on philosophical, theological, and environmental issues by Utah's first Poet Laureate.
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For the past thirty years David Lee has been writing narratives in the voices of the people of the rural southwest. In this new collection, he turns to odes and landscape meditations to explore and braid his theological, philosophical, and environmental beliefs. Set in the American southwest, the book is divided into four sections following the archetypal elements of earth, fire, water and air. Each section begins at dawn and works its way through the day using the motif of a walking journey. A book of elegiac geography, So Quietly the Earth opens and closes with requiems and explores the beauty, grace, and destruction of a planet pushed towards extinction.
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"If we were a civilized nation, we would declare David Lee a national treasure."--Poetry East
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Poetry. For the past thirty years David Lee, Utah's first poet laureate, has been writing narratives in the voices of the people of the rural Southwest. In this new collection he makes a marked turn toward the voice of the desert he knows so well. His odes and landscapes braod theological, philosophical, and environmental meditations. "If we were a civilized nation, we would declare David Lee a national treasure" --Poetry East.
About the Author
David Lee, author of eight books of poetry, was Utah's first Poet Laureate. A former seminary candidate, semi-pro baseball player, and hog farmer, he has a Ph.D. with a concentration in Milton and is the recently retired head of the Languages and Literature department at Southern Utah University.