Eating the Sting

Author's Bio:

Award-winning poet and educator John Caddy is the author of The Color of Mesabi Bones (Milkweed Editions, 1989), a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner for poetry, and Eating the Sting (Milkweed Editions, 1986).  His "Earth Journal" poems circulate daily to teachers, naturalists, artists, and students around the world. A founder of Minnesota's Poets in the Schools program, Caddy has taught poetry to adults and children in over eight hundred settings over the course of forty years.

Quotes:

“This is an improbably strong book. John Caddy is a piper at the gates of dawn, which is what a poet is supposed to be.”—Jim Harrison

“I know of no one with a more powerful sense of wild nature or a better ability to describe it and appreciate its profound mysteries.”—Mark Vinz