Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses

and other spaces both ecological and spiritual

Mithlo addresses crucial issues

you sometimes don't know where the source of the power of these poems comes from

A Man Called Raven

Savage Conversations cities Gathering Moss is a beautifully"This is a haunted poem. Howe gives us voices intimate, twisted, and deludedand yet relentlessly exact. Inside this drama in verse, a seething history uncoils. But do we meet a mad woman's fantasy or someone more real?" Heid Erdrich May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln's claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face