About the poet: Mark Wagner has received the Ex Libris Poetry Prize, and his poetry has won many individual journal writing prizes. In ’99 he won the Worcester magazine Short Story Contest. Currently he is Visiting Professor of English at Nichols College.
2001 0-7734-3448-8 Poems of humans in nature, a Nature that demands labor, loss, desperation, life itself. The poems abound with a wry awareness of human society.