<p>The poems in <em>Tales of an Anxious Hiker</em> grew out of a year-long hiking challenge and a need for an acceptable place to throw a civilized tantrum in the wake of loss. Grief fear tacos Jeff Daniels the purpose of mosquitoes 70% humidity - nothing is off-limits as the poems wind their way through the forests and sand dunes of Michigan (with brief visits to Ohio and Arizona). Nature - at both its finest and most misery-inducing - is on full display here. And if Nature is worried about what people will think of it then maybe Nature should have behaved better.</p><p></p><p></p>