Shy Green Fields

Hugh Behm-Steinberg's <i>Shy Green Fields</i> is in company with books by poets who wrote about glorious ordinary days in extraordinary times. In a pillowbook of a hundred seven-line poems this life as it is written has the shadow of Robert Creeley's <i>A Day Book</i> behind it and the shadow of Federico Lorca in his famous reiterated line Green I love you green ... a specific and pacific emotional response in difficult political times. Behm-Steinberg's book is likewise carnal primal and intellectual. <i>Shy Green Fields</i> exults in experience Such versions! --Jane Miller