Generations

<b>Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry</b> <p/>Pattiann Rogers one of America's finest contemporary poets has won a reputation for densely detailed thickly textured poems describing the natural world and one's place in it that are informed by a broad knowledge of science. In the tradition of Emerson Whitman and A. R. Ammons Rogers's wise and complex poems read like a series of witty but deeply felt explorations of the physical world and the presence of the divine exuding much observational care and descriptive panache. Her new collection <i>Generations</i> consists of fifty-four poems that concern themselves not just with the notion of the generations of life but generations in the sense of energy change replication and continuity--the entire process of coming or bringing into being.