With Mouths Wide Open

From my own seminal experiences in the Adirondack Mountains, I know how difficult it is to commit entirely to landscape and creature. John Caddy's poems in "Wave," the first section ofWith Mouths Open Wide, presents a total immersion, body and soul, without cell-phone interruptions or reminders of the frantic human world back home. In the "Stroke" section which closes the book, Caddy's sudden impairment reveals a medical establishment which blames and tyrannizes the patient, but by that same love for the light and beauty of the earth the poet recovers enough his "eye for every shade of green." Greg Kuzmaauthor ofAdirondacks,Good News, andA TurningCaddy, John is the author of 'With Mouths Wide Open', published 2008 under ISBN 9781571314277 and ISBN 157131427X.