There continues to be a great deal of interest in Thoreau these days, and this immersion into his vast diary provides a contemporary poet's insight into the original work. Some of the pieces are based on his experiences, but re-shaped, expanded and altered some are wholly imaginary responses to reading the entries in the Journal. The book is in the form of a dialogue between Thoreau and Pacey each poem begins with an epigraph in the form of a quotation from Thoreau's Journal – the particular passage (or sometimes passages) which inspired Pacey to write the poem that follows.
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