Choosing a Stone

<p>The poems in <em>Choosing a Stone</em> Richard Hedderman’s first full-length poetry collection masterfully explore the intersection of physical landscape and human consciousness. In sharply imagistic and muscular language these visceral poems revel in the sensory delights that reinforce our shared humanity: praising hot black coffee savoring a rustic Basque dinner lazing in a hammock or watching “the sky-map of cloud drift over the trees.” He is archeologist and alchemist quarrying an historical mythos to shape his powerful deeply-realized vision. Hedderman’s work intrepidly—and wryly—excavates and shapes an authentic understanding of our place in this world and the one we’ve come from.</p>