Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

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tude may have them.” Rich responds for migrant workers’ multitude as against
his solitude, “the poet ’s tower facing the western ocean.” Loving the biblical
“stranger that dwelleth among you,” she questions her own separateness as Jew,
woman, lesbian. When winter flood tides “crumble the prophet ’s headland,” she
asks, “when leviathan is endangered,” what will solitude mean then?

Horace Lyon, Tor House and Hawk Tower, ca. 1930.

Tor House Foundation.