Peeling away stereotypes with knife-sharp images, Elizabeth Schultz’s collection of poems opens up the Kansas landscape to reveal astonishing complexities and subtleties. These poems dazzle the senses, breathing life not only into plants and animals, but also into seasons and the sky. For readers familiar with America’s heartland as well as for those unfamiliar with it, THE SAUNTERING EYE becomes a necessary guide to seeing more fully and more deeply, to envisioning this and other landscapes as myriad-layered, connected to the remote past as well as to a perplexing future.