Great Regulars: To imply that "nature poetry," through some inadequacy

of its own, is light, apolitical, unserious or somehow capable of masking ignorance, especially one as monolithic as mine, is beyond absurd. The truth is that good nature poetry brings to light new facets of the natural world and exposes everybody's ignorance. The poems in Alison Hawthorne Deming's most recent poetry collection, Rope, do just that:

The Lake

from Kristen Hoggatt: The Smart Set: Ask a Poet: Human Nature

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