An eclogue is a sort of picnic in words. In this latest book of poetry by one of the leading practitioners of Expansive Poetry, Turner asks in his introduction, "Suppose there could be a poetry, even a scientific description of reality, that left undamaged the principles, the honor, the history and myth, the ritual, the intellectual criteria of believers and unbelievers—as long as they were people of depth and thought and imagination?"

Contents:

• Winter Evening in Texas
• Texas Eclogues
• The Cold Applause (Maine, 1989)
• Villanelle on the Oregon Coast
• Revisiting Northamptonshire
• Pear Tree in March
• Geysers in Yellowstone
• Columbia Runs a Temperature
• The Bruges Virgin
• In a Season of Political Faction
• A Riddle
• On a Bigot of the Poststructuralist Persuasion
• Advice to a Poet
• Salvage
• 205 Woodside Drive
• The Arrival Matters
• On Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations, Saint-Colombe, Marais, Radnoti and Petrarch
• Death Mass
• North Sea Storm
• On Robert Corrigan
• Corrigan Dying
• Corrigan Dead
• Field Notes
• The Dolphin Hotel and Epcot Center
• Sestina Upon the Cosmological Anthropic Principle
• Titaness
• On the Precolumbian Zero
• Pinatubo Summer