"The strength of Tim Hunt's nature poems drew me into this book. His observation of light, rocks, a hawk and a field mouse in 'High Desert Summer, ' a California landscape, is so intense that he seems to long to become part of it. Then come the poems honoring and loving his family, whose history is made up of men and women 'getting by, ' 'learning to make do, ' acquiring 'that tricky pride of the poor--the failing that is success.' Here is a poet...
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