The Language of Water and Grass

By turns contemplative and exultant, Judson McGehee’s poetry explores the most central of human preoccupations—our relationship to the natural world. The poems collected in The Language of Water and Grass, written over a span of sixty years, form a tapestry displaying the poet’s evolution and varying influences, from the romanticism of William Wordsworth and the philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, to the wonder of Mary Oliver and the mysticism of W.S. Merwin.