Written by many well respected international figures and drawn together and edited by Ravi Fotedar &amp; Bruce Phillips, this exciting book is an essential purchase for anyone involved in or about to enter into the aquaculture industry.

I am a native but not exactly at home, says the speaker near the end of The Song of the Weed Witch, a declaration that echoes through Jeff Gundy's Spoken among the Trees. Gundy is restless in body and spirit-and in poetic form-a compulsive explorer through the flatlands of Ohio and Indiana. On one level, he seeks out the green, astonishing world abuzz with birds and water and wind through the trees. On another level, he looks to the immediate sensations of nature for spiritual clues, entrances into the realm beyond blue jays and pines. But, as he drolly says in The Recovery of Imaginary Friends, The guidebook of holy places lacks directions. Spoken among the Trees may hunger after moments of recognition and release, but not with the chill pallor of pietism. These poems mingle the romantic and ironic; they tell jokes and light up a scene with the flash of an incandescent phrase. Titles offer delights of their own, as in June Report with Suppressed Geese and Sweatbees, or this collision of the sublime and the mundane, Soul Travel at the Electric Brew, Goshen, Indiana (with another statement of Gundy's restless theme: If I could, I would live everywhere for a little while). Spoken among the Trees is a book to live with, companionable even as it challenges easy beliefs and resists the overly earnest with a warm wit. Jeff Gundy's intricate and musical poems are wise in their humility, as probing as they are sweetly reasonable.

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Spoken Among the Trees

&quot; What a joy it is to follow the trails he traces across the page and out into the world. Finishing this book, my impulse (as with all favorite books of poems) is to return to the beginning and start it all over again! --Terry Hermsen,

New book of poetry of nature and place by Jeff Gundy

Without a Plea

&quot;WIND FARM swirls with urgency, the poet dazzling us in prose that moves swiftly across time and place, a story that will not let the reader go quietly, peacefully, as the wind farmer meditates on a host of transgressions and graces, ...

"Wind Farm: Landscape with Stories and Towers explores the human and natural geography of the Illinois prairie landscape of Jeff Gundy’s youth, transformed long ago by the grid system of roads and ditches and intensive agriculture, and altered again by a vast wind farm. These deeply personal yet wide-ranging lyrical essays—whimsical, practical, and mystical, sometimes within the same paragraph—range across football and chicken farming, power grids and Mennonite history, folk music and mound-builders, set off by Gundy’s own photographs. As industrial production of corn, soybeans, and energy becomes pervasive, and farmsteads and human populations among the towers dwindle, Wind Farm investigates the imagined past and intricate present of one small portion of the prairie, and glimpses possible futures for it and the planet."--publisher's website.

Wind Farm - Landscape with Stories and Towers

&quot;These vivid meditations call us to enter the whirl of our desires. With wit and passion, Jeff Gundy investigates our deep roots of longing for God and the other. He offers an unforgettable ride.

Reports from an Interior Province: New and Selected Poems traces Jeff Gundy's long journey as a restless, searching, embodied poet, rooted in his native Midwest and Mennonite tradition but constantly seeking new articulations, locations, and forms. Including work from eight published books and generous sets of new and uncollected poems, Reports showcases Gundy's enduring love of long-lined, unrhymed couplets that allow generous breathing space for his frequent swoops and veers among subjects and settings. His range also extends over brief lyrics, prose poems, and extended, multi-section narratives and meditations. Gundy's associative leaps and stretches flirt with surrealism and the fantastic, yet return often to natural landscapes and threads of quirky narrative. "If Whitman were born in the Midwest to Mennonite parents, listened to Dylan and the Dead and loved to laugh at himself, observes Philip Metres, "he'd sound just like Jeff Gundy." Gundy traces both the sturdy beauties and the griefs and traumas of his home territory in poems like "Where I Live," from Flatlands: "how we love it, how we hate it, / how it did not quite kill us young." His farm-boy earthiness has carried through Gundy's career as poet and professor, though Reports is also salted with poems about the small college life and leavened by generous doses of humor. "Most students believe they're more honest than most students," he observes ruefully in "Notes from the Faculty Meeting," and "After a national search, we hired Randy's brother." Early on, Andrew Hudgins noted Gundy's characteristic theological curiosity, as well as his "verve, wit, passion, and deep intelligence." His poems have long contended with doubt and reverence, edging toward the mystical but refusing dogmatism. Restless curiosity, and a Fulbright grant, led Gundy to extended stays in Salzburg and Lithuania, as well as many briefer journeys, and his poems often find fresh energy and unexpected rewards in encounters with new landscapes, cities, and people. "So much easier to blow things up than to get them right," he writes in "Rhapsody with Dark Matter," set in "the finest little town in Arkansas." "Letter to J. from the Ramada Inn Western Avenue, Albany" culminates with a main theme of his long career: "God wants / us all to love each other. But only / very slowly can we teach each other how."

New and Selected Poems

Reports from an Interior Province

Poetry. &quot;Just as a river finds inevitable kinship between remote hills and a distant sea, this book employs the prehensile reach of poetry to link local wisdom and distant war, to bind sacred callings and daily life.&quot;—Kim Stafford

Poetry. "Just as a river finds inevitable kinship between remote hills and a distant sea, this book employs the prehensile reach of poetry to link local wisdom and distant war, to bind sacred callings and daily life."—Kim Stafford

Somewhere Near Defiance

Using family photos, records, recollections, and historical research, Gundy follows seven generations through time and space: from Bavaria and Alsace to Ohio to Illinois in the 1830s; from frontier dwellings with dirt floors to homes with ...

Using family photos, records, recollections, and historical research, Gundy follows seven generations through time and space: from Bavaria and Alsace to Ohio to Illinois in the 1830s; from frontier dwellings with dirt floors to homes with refrigerators. He also follows them intellectually, from a strict to a broader interpretation of religious doctrine in the 1870s, which led to a schism within the already small Mennonite community; from a longstanding position on pacifism and conscientious objection to some questioning of this stance during World War II.

My Days with George and Clara

A Community of Memory

Then we ll gather what we need and head/off again, for good.  Another poem asks, &quot;How will you spend your small, strange, unrepeatable life?  I ve spent some of mine living in these poems, so worth every minute. ~Kate Fox, former ...

Art. Film. Philosophy. Music. "If Whitman were born in the Midwest to Mennonite parents, listened to Dylan and the Dead and loved to laugh at himself, he'd sound just like Jeff Gundy. 'I want the reader as far inside of my skin as possible,' he writes, in bemused poems that are in love with the productions of matter and time. 'How else to describe this absurd, lovely world?' he poses in the title poem of his warm and inviting ABANDONED HOMELAND. Gundy's poetry reminds us, over and over, that paying attention to the delights and troubles of existence becomes a kind of psalm to this botched and beautiful creation."--Philip Metres

Abandoned Homeland

The first book-length treatment of the flowering of American Mennonite writing of the last two decades, this book combines careful scholarship with Jeff Gundy&#39;s frank, sometimes sardonic, often funny, deeply engaging commentary on Mennonite ...

The first book-length treatment of the flowering of American Mennonite writing of the last two decades, this book combines careful scholarship with Jeff Gundy's frank, sometimes sardonic, often funny, deeply engaging commentary on Mennonite writing and culture. Gundy explores important Mennonite authors--Patrick Friesen, William Stafford, Julia Kasdorf, Jean Janzen, Keith Ratzlaff, and many others--as well as crucial issues and themes--power and authority, myths of origin and possibility, heresy and community.

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