The Blessings - Softcover

Speth, Gus

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218101244

Publisher: Watershed Publications, 2022

Synopsis

After award-winning books on environmental challenges, this is Gus Speth's fourth collection of poems. Many of the pieces included express wonder and appreciation for the gifts we share with each other and find in the natural world, through poignant depictions of place and time - thus the title. Others relate starkly revealing human encounters. There are love poems, political poems, dog poems, funny poems, and a small collection of telling limericks. In one poem, he asks himself, "Did you not see that she was real and you were just a character in your dream?"

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About the Author

Gus Speth recently served as dean of the Yale School of the Environment and as professor of law at Vermont Law School. At the United Nations, he was the head of the UN's Development Program. Prior to that, he was co-founder of both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), where he led on many environmental issues over a period of 17 years. During the Carter years, he served as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Speth is currently Distinguished Fellow at the Democracy Collaborative. He and his wife Cameron (Cece), and their dogs Folly and Callie, divide their time between central Vermont and coastal South Carolina.

Edition details

• Publisher: Watershed Publications
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218101244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80