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The Natural World
Birdseye
We know something at the same time — we need to get out quick, Hal is already out, and Chuck is out on the other side, Anne and I are scrambling out, then we’re in the middle of the road in a little group, all looking at the illuminated bird. As the bird stands still in the air, I get an old ecstatic feeling of being overcome.
August 1981The Word Gets Around
An Interview With Pete Seeger
One reason racism seems to be more of a problem is at last it’s out in the open. Racism has been there all along. It’s an old, old human problem, that’s been with us for thousands of years, and it’s in every country of the world in one form or another. Some have solved it in one way and not solved it in other ways.
May 1981Conversations, Yet Unspoken: Spring
There is a day in winter when warmth and wetness first come together perfectly. It is Spring, though no calendar admits it. There is a surging up. And it always seems a Sunday.
March 1981Favorite Places
The mountains, the Nags Head Casino, a cave in a thicket of forsythia
March 1981News Of The Universe
Poems Of Twofold Consciousness
This book asks one question over and over: how much consciousness is the poet willing to grant to trees or hills or living creatures not a part of his own species?
February 1981Photographs By John Rosenthal
The photographs in this selection are available as a PDF only. Click here to download.
November 1980
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