The Zeiger Family Homestead Blog

More than halfway through the year, I’m managing to keep faithful to my New Year’s Resolution to read a poem a day, every day. I even kept it up when we drove to Fairbanks to visit family, trusting that I’d find poetry books at their place. I did. Not only did they have a volume of one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, but they had another book that included a poem by Galway Kinnell. I really liked his unabashedly erotic Last Gods, and learned that he’s considered a “nature” poet, so I decided to seek out more of his work. When I recently did, finding his A New Selected Poems, (paid link) (check your local bookstore) I learned that this is not a discovery, but a rediscovery. Paging through the book, I found a poem I’d read many years ago, called The Bear. Continue reading →