"Acclaimed poet Donald Hall, who contributes an original prose-poem meditation on winter as a preface to this volume, is author of thirteen volumes of poetry spanning over forty years, including Without and The Painted Bed, and many books of nonfiction, including The Pleasures of Poetry and Life Work. Robert Atwan is founding editor of The Best American Essays series; and his previous poetry anthologies include Chapters Into Verse and Divine Inspiration. Renowned American illustrator Thomas Nason has been called an artist who ""captured the poetry of the New England scene as timelessly on wood and copper as Robert Frost did in words."""