“An enthralling read. . . . We see and feel the world as they experienced it.”

Striking photographic images paired with stories and statements by birds, mammals, and reptiles cast light on some of humanity’s most sacred writings. Funny, thoughtful, observant— like the Hebrew prophets, these are writings of warning and hope that “hold . . . the mirror up to nature” and show us our unlikely and imperfect human face.

“Gettysburg—the place and the battle—is offered here in a kind of fifth dimension, a remarkable assembly of haunts, gripping and moving, that is very hard to put down.”

“Irreverent and subversive, they nevertheless regard the views they question as imposing enough to deserve a passionate reply. Too witty and wide-ranging to be strident, the poems move from personal experience into politics and cosmology. They truly rise to the occasion.”

“This is a book to read and ponder all twelve months of the year.”

“Gramm’s public poems range widely from the topical to the historical to the poignantly elegiac, resonating with biting Swiftian wit, pure humor, and Frostian wisdom.”

Through the eyes and voices of two soldiers who fought at Antietam, one Confederate and one Union, Kent Gramm cuts to the core of that terrible experience and its larger meaning

“This promises to become a universally beloved book.”

Psalms for the Poor talk back to the blunt and beautiful phrases of the King James Bible. Sometimes personal, sometimes political, the original Psalms complain, question, curse, and adore

“. . . a seething admixture of erudition, despair, hopefulness, realism, romanticism, contempt, and humility. And also a foundational affirmation of the redemptive potential of love.”

…a window into the universal experience of war.

“This is a remarkable work, full of brightness and invention and maybe even genius.”

“Superbly crafted, with an equal mastery of the human heart. Absolutely outstanding.”