Urban Nature

Author's Bio:

Laure-Anne Bosselaar, a poet, has edited alone or with her husband, Kurt Brown, the Milkweed Editions' poetry anthologies, Outsiders and Night Out. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Emily Hiestand is poetry editor of Orion magazine.

Quotes:

"Highly enjoyable--and recommended.” —Library Journal

“...Bosselaar presents poems of supple wit, grace, and acuity by more than 130 poets that marvel at nature's myriad improvisations in the realm of concrete, brick, glass, steel, and automobiles. Metaphors unite the humanmade and the natural world with great finesse.... A resonant testament to life's irrepressibility.” --Booklist

“A wonderful anthology —the conundrum of its title underscores how urgently urban are its poems, and how naturally these poems sing. One hundred and thirty-two different poets are represented in this densely-populated volume, and yet there is a communal turbulence, if that's possible, to the language. These poems are written in a language of motion.” —Harvard Review

“Based on new thinking in ecology and urban studies, cities are seen more and more as having their own unique ecosystems. The editor's intent in selecting these poems was to be unsentimental, not to idealize nature but to explore the bond between humand and “other.' . . . This collection is based on a unique premise and it works.” —Kliatt

"Urban Nature signals the inaguration of a new era of poetry about nature, one that incorporates skyline, asphalt, iron, and urban decay”——Orion

“Despite its obvious reflections on loss, Urban Nature is at heart a tribute to nature's resiliency and a paean to human hope.”——Southwest American Literature

“Editor Laure-Anne Bosselaar kicks off National Poetry Month by offering poems that ask adult readers to look and then look again with her Milkweed Edition's “Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City”. Here are pieces that applaud life's tenacity...Milkweed Editions offers poetry collections to match mant a person's interest.”--Linda Piwowarczyk