Earthbound by Kathie Fiveash

Naturalist, teacher, homesteader and writer Kathie Fiveash divides her year between Florence, Massachusetts and Isle au Haut, Maine, a remote, unbridged island in Penobscot Bay. She is the author of Island Naturalist, an award-winning collection of essays about natural history on the coast of Maine.

“These poems straddle the pure joy found in nature and the inevitability of loss…”
— Linda Greenlaw

“You will find love here, and attentiveness to the small, to the lost, to what survives…”
— Rebecca Hart Olander