Celebrated poet David Mason's delightful collection of essays explores the connections between literary voice and place.

David Mason is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Sea Salt and Davey McGravy; a memoir, News from the Village; and the verse novel Ludlow. His poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Times Literary Supplement. A former Fulbright fellow to Greece, he lives in Colorado and Oregon and teaches at Colorado College. He was poet laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014.

Preface: Reading in Place
Travelers
Letter from Tasmania
Travelers (Herodotus and Patrick Leigh Fermor)
The Silk Road of Poetry
The Unseeable, Unsayable World
Reading Greece
Walking to the Heart of Greece (Kevin Andrews)
So He'll Go No More A-Roving (Patrick Leigh Fermor)
The News from Everywhere (Bruce Chatwin)
Exiles, Eccentrics, Immigrants
Man of Action, Man of Letters (Joseph Conrad)
A Mad Master of Modernism (Ezra Pound)
Creating a Literary Hero (James Joyce)
Awe for Auden
The Name Inside a Name (Kevin Hart)
Ariel and Co. (Les Murray, Cally Conan-Davies)
Voices, Places
Voices, Places
To Humanize the Inhumanist (Robinson Jeffers)
Belle Turnbull's Western Narrative
A Poet of the Left (Thomas McGrath)
The Western Prophets (Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey)