Schley's first full-length collection of poems is made of sequences that turn upon phases of living--traveler, apprentice, homesteader and new parent, then troubled but still engaged citizen of a village and a world. 80 pp.
Jim Schley has been co-editor of the literary quarterly New England Review, production editor for University Press of New England, and editor-in-chief of Chelsea Green Publishing Company and has edited more than a hundred books on a wide variety of subjects, including poetry and fiction, literary essays, history, art, Native American culture, organic farming and gardening, solar and wind energy, and natural architecture and building techniques. His poems have been featured in Best American Spiritual Writing, on the radio program "The Writer's Almanac," and in its companion book Good Poems, as well as in a poetry chapbook, One Another.
