The compelling essays in Bernard Quetchenbach’s Accidental Gravity move from upstate New York to the western United States, from urban and suburban places to wild lands. In the first section of the bo
Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Robinson Jeffers, and Theodore Roethke are among the poets Quetchenbach (English, Florida Southern College) examines to assess their attempts to find a public v
The waters of Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, Florida, have provided much for the inhabitants of the area over the decades. From the early days of the first pioneers in the region through to the stude
