Everything That Rises

Environmentalist appeal: California water/wildfire crisis referenced as well as many wildlife images from the Sierra Nevada. Considers himself part of a Northwest Style of poetics heavily influenced by Eastern traditions-poets who look across the Pacific, not the Atlantic, for models and inspiration.
Notable writer connections: Studied under Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, Jack Gilbert, and John Logan and is praised by Ted Kooser, W.S. Merwin, and Jim Harrison.
World Travel!
Many of the poems approach mortality and the difficulty of aging.