Atmospheric Landscapes of North America

2024 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Poetry (General)
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In January 1842, Henry David Thoreau lost his beloved older brother and Ralph Waldo Emerson's 5-year-old son died of scarlet fever. George Myers Jr. recreates the men's calendar of sorrow, exploring how the two friends struggled to keep hold of the American newness they helped create, complemented by Myers's monochromes of Concord, Massachusetts.