*Of interest to readers of poetry and people interested in visual art, art history, ecology, and land management

*Artists included: Willem de Kooning, Rosa Bonheur, Tacita Dean, Robert Smithson, Sally Mann, Chaim Soutine, Joan Jonas, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Agnes Martin, Renee Gladman, Frederick Law Olmsted, Andre des Gachons, Zineb Sedira, Irving Petlin, Gustav Klimt, Zao Wou-ki, Agnes Varda, David Hockney, George Shiras, Christo & Jeanne-Claude

*Themes in this book could fall under the umbrella of ecopoetics

*Author is currently a professor, Brown University

*Previously a professor at University of Denver 1996-2001, Iowa Writers’ Workshop 2001-2012, Brown University 2012-present

*Ph.D. 1994. Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

*Prizes/Awards/Fellowships: Villa Le Notre Residency Grant, Ecole nationale superieure de paysage; Finalist, Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry, Hungarian PEN Club; Creative Capital Grant; Beinecke Library, Yale, writer-in-residence; Guggenheim Fellowship; Creative Capital Grant; Pushcart Prize; PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation; Pushcart Prize; San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award; Iowa Poetry Prize; Bay Area Award Series in Poetry, New Langton Arts; New American Poetry Series, Sun & Moon Press; Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Writing; Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Writing; National Poetry Serie