The River's Voice

An Anthology of Poetry

While in recent years some rivers have been cleansed and restored, so that they are healthier now than at any time since the industrial revolution, other rivers are under assault from the impacts of modern society—chemical pollution, the lowering of water tables, erosion of banks and stream beds, and flooding due to global climate change, as well as destruction of plant and animal habitat.

In this book, more than 180 poems create a chorus of older voices (Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickinson) and new, from both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Atwood, Seamus Heaney, A. R. Ammons, Adrienne Rich, Randall Jarrell, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Andrew Motion and Elizabeth Bishop.

About the Author
Common Ground is a nonprofit organization that seeks—through model projects, exhibitions, publications, and events—to inspire people to remember the richness of everyday landscapes, to savor the symbolism with which we have endowed nature, and to renew our emotional engagement with places as we become involved in their care. The River's Voice accompanies Field Days, an anthology of poems about fields and meadows, and Trees Be Company, an anthology of poems about trees. Visit the Common Ground website.