Wild Muse

<p><em>Wild Muse</em> is a collection of contemporary poetry engaging Ozarks nature and environment. Some topics and themes explored here are nature's beauty sense of place loss of place environmental diminishment and human dependence on nature and its sublime indifference to our existence. </p><p><br></p><p>Combining the best aspects of chapbooks and anthologies this chapthology features extensive selections from the work of nine Ozarks poets (C. D. Albin Wendy Taylor Carlisle Paulette Guerin John J. Han Phillip Howerton Gerry Sloan Mark Spitzer Agnes Vojta and Amy Wright Vollmar) providing readers a generous introduction to the voice style and perspectives of each writer. </p><p><br></p><p>In total this collection presents almost 200 poems and offers biographical material about each poet discussion of some poems included and advice and insights about writing nature-based poetry. </p>