At Shore's Border: Poems of Lake Nebagamon, Volume Three (Paperback)

Poetry. Recalling Whitman in his effortless prose-like rhythms, Thoreau in his immersion in a single natural setting, and Emerson in his rapturous encounter with nature's mobile cast of creatures and settings, Brodsky, in this, the third volume of his Lake Nebagamon trilogy, joins company with earlier American romantics, yet speaks in his own inimitable voice. The self's encounter with nature is at once an inexhaustible American story and Brodsky's compelling personal theme."Like all gifted poets, Louis Daniel Brodsky is a master of observation and language, a prophet of metaphor, and a scientist who distills worlds of truth into a single page. But three things set Brodsky's poetry apart: his work is joyful, grateful, life-affirming, and creation-loving, brightening the life of the reader; his poems contain such surprises, such unexpected conclusions, that they feel like short stories; his poems, like the best historiography, teach well because they don't aim to teach, rather play show-and-tell with the truth and quietly invite us to lay hold of it."--Dan Doriani