Beside the Sleeping Maiden

Poetry. California Studies. Edited by CB Follett. Includes poems by Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Linda Gregg, Kay Ryan, and others. "A majority of these poems use the landscape of Marin as either subject or setting. Because of that, there's an overlapping imagery--hawks and deer, hills and sea and fog--that gives the experience of reading the book the feel of turning a jewel in your hand to study the various facets. Sleeping Maiden celebrates the local; and implicit in that stance are both appreciation for, and responsibility towards, where one finds oneself on the earth. That's a sense of the world that's more and more in danger of becoming extinct, but it's still alive and kicking in this book"--Kim Addonizio, Poetry Flash.