Litany of the Plants

A celebration of all species centrifuged into verse... Litany of the Plants is an exquisite collection of 52 poems-smug poems poems expressing gratitude poems of joy satire appreciation romance and rebellion-narrated by a variety of voices. These voices include a person near senility a barroom ranter a confessor a clown a bureaucrat a racist and a romantic while three very different travelers narrate the North Dakota poems. There are consumers of scientific research the observer of nature and even a fern that offers an observation about landscape paintings. Written primarily in free verse and rich in slant rhyme and consonance these poems feature a curiosity about life science and the struggle for existence. Flowing like an undercurrent throughout the collection is a celebration of scientific inquiry and its accomplishments...and the joy to be found in the natural world.