How It Is: Selected Poems Susie Yi you're sweating your way up

you're sweating your way up the mountain

a deep stain on the Army's record and pride

you will build from an absolute beginner

A Book of Maps for You honors the homes we leave behind and the ones we haven't met yet

How It Is: Selected Poems Susie Yi you're sweating your way upAlthough Neil Shepard has long been associated with the stony foundations of Vermont, both by his luminous invocations of the natural world and his Frost worthy, densely woven lyricism, he has emerged over the course of his writing life as an intrepid, wise and wry observer of the larger world. His poems are expansive, meticulous in their emotional cartography, and always historically resonant while still discovering those troubled reckonings of the