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How can we save what we do not love, or love what we do not know? This two-pronged question is central to the poems in The Double Nest. Drawing close to brookside creatures, Watts attends to the words of monk and writer Thomas Merton, "It is essential to experience all the times and moods of one good place." The poet also celebrates a seventy-year-old albatross, the friendship of a wolf with a bear, a medieval monk's attempt at flight, and the brother she could not save. As we face species collapse, these poems join the personal with our larger challenge, to create a viable future for "...all who share birth, blood, and breath."…mehr

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How can we save what we do not love, or love what we do not know? This two-pronged question is central to the poems in The Double Nest. Drawing close to brookside creatures, Watts attends to the words of monk and writer Thomas Merton, "It is essential to experience all the times and moods of one good place." The poet also celebrates a seventy-year-old albatross, the friendship of a wolf with a bear, a medieval monk's attempt at flight, and the brother she could not save. As we face species collapse, these poems join the personal with our larger challenge, to create a viable future for "...all who share birth, blood, and breath."
Autorenporträt
Rhett Watts is widely published in print and online, including in Best Spiritual Writing 2000. Her poetry books are Willing Suspension and The Braiding. She facilitates writing workshops in Connecticut and Massachusetts and lives with her husband and a Siberian cat on the Lower Worcester Plateau, twenty-five feet from Dark Brook.