Natural Trouble

Product description Review "Truly a cabinet of curiosities, each poem a collage of surprising or remembered details, opening onto further marvels. The effect is vertiginous--and exhilarating. Scott Hightower has Marianne Moore's scissors and Elizabeth Bishop's spectacles, and he has written a book in the spirit of their adventurous precisions."-----J. D. McClatchyNothing is off limits to Hightower, nor does anything seem out of place. If his tone is sometimes light, it is also smart and brave...A fine addition to contemporary poetry collections.-- "--Library Journal" From the Inside Flap "Truly a cabinet of curiosities, each poem a collage of surprising or remembered details, opening onto further marvels. The effect is vertiginous and exhilarating. Scott Hightower has Marianne Moore's scissors and Elizabeth Bishop's spectacles, and he has written a book in the spirit of their adventurous precisions." J. D. McClatchy. "The ambition of Hightower's latest book is huge, nothing short of a Whitmanesque temporality an acknowledgement of time's exacting price and a desire to transcend it. He finds in art not only a consolation but also an ethical imperative." Yvette Christiansë. "Elegant and graceful elegies for the beauty of unfamiliar and overlooked landscapes. Natural Trouble weaves the smallest of strands including song, light, and color into a compelling tapestry of history, both personal and communal. He makes gorgeous connections between human grief and the healing word." Rigoberto González About the Author Scott Hightower is contributing editor to The Journal and teaches at Fordham University and New York University. Read more