Turned Earth

<i>Turned Earth </i>the fifth collection of poems by Brad Richard offers a portrait of the artist as a grieving son who is also a husband teacher gardener and attentive witness to our precarious world. Navigating life after his mother's death the speaker uses memory and imagination to understand as one poem's title declares How I Came to This. Tender and trenchant elegiac yet often livened by humor Richard's poems affirm the sustaining power of hope and love.