Elemental Natures : Selected Lyrics, Sequences, and Artwork with New Poems and the Essay "The American Voice"

Praise for Elemental Natures "Lance Lee's Elemental Natures draws together in one inspiring new volume a powerful selection of works ... These attest to the far-reaching intelligence and perceptive insights of a remarkable talent-from Lance Lee's respect for the classical tradition to the vigor of all-consuming human love to the welfare of planet earth as well as our common awesome as well as awful experiences. In living with these works, I could not help coming away with a sense of poetic maturity and mastery." -Tom Tolnay, editor and publisher, Birch Brook Press, US "Elemental Natures draws from a career spread over thirty years ... Our complexities and place in the world are central in his work, while "Late Spring" brings his difficult father marvelously to life as Lee investigates himself, his family, and mixed gentile and Jewish background. Here is a poet writing with the richness of the Romantics who looks hard at reality and expresses himself with passion and honesty, pulling the reader in." -Myra Schneider, Lifting the Sky, UK "Elemental Natures is a beautiful accomplishment, an expanse of poems born of one man's 'life-wish'-unsettling, full-blooded, tender-that shows life's energy pressing up against the margins of mortality with a vibrant, sensuous intelligence ... He offers a way to share and celebrate multiple aspects of being alive within the vitality of art itself as well as within our great archetypal myths, which he makes uniquely intimate and essential." -Pamela Stewart, Infrequent Mysteries, US