Green Leaves

<p><em>Green Leaves: New and Selected Poems </em>collects work from Eric Paul Shaffer's seven volumes and thirty-five years of publication. On voyages around the Pacific Rim from California to Okinawa to Hawai'i Shaffer's sharp eye for natural and human detail delights and illuminates. A charter member of the Clear Pool School Shaffer writes direct profound and often funny poems celebrating the American vernacular and encouraging a broader sense of the human humane ecological and planetary. </p>