When I Set the Sweetgrass Down

By Will Falk

Book Overview

Many poets write about the natural world - few poets write while acting directly to defend the natural world like environmental activist and attorney Will Falk does in When I Set the Sweetgrass Down. The natural world speaks, Falk insists, in these biophilic poems written from the frontlines of land defense campaigns. These poems are a record of what Falk heard from the natural world in places like Thacker Pass, Nevada where Falk set up a protest occupation in a beautiful mountain pass set for destruction by an open pit mine and Hawaii's Mauna Kea where Falk helped to blockade telescope construction from desecrating the sacred mountain. At a time when the destruction of the natural world is intensifying, When I Set the Sweetgrass Down will help readers find the courage they need to - and remind them why they must - act to defend the source of all life: the natural world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195636840X
• ISBN13: 9781956368406
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Wayfarer Books
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.2"