A diverse display of formal dexterity, narrative power, and lyrical
resonance, Peter Filkins's latest collection of poems explores the
fraught relationship between the natural world and the human.
Exploring the space between nature and culture, the poems of Water /
Music anchor themselves in the timely and the timeless. Rich and
diverse in their formal intricacy, they move with ease from narrative to
meditation, from close physical observation to the haunts of memory, and
from lyric sorrow to the pleasure of living in the world. Water /
Music embraces and celebrates life's mystery and the soul's repose amid
"talismans at twilight, the whir of birds."