Exile's Journey

Following in the plain yet profound footsteps of Wendell Berry and Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey Bilbro enriches us with intelligent, earnest, attentive and, at times, inventively formal verse in celebration of trapped mice, sand cranes, sunflowers, mock frost, medieval monks, Renaissance artists, wailing toddlers, and-my favorite-a satirical business plan for how to be a thought-leader. The irenic irony is that these poems show Jeffrey Bilbro to be a leader not only in thought but also in heart. -Paul J. Willis, author of Somewhere to Follow