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In Blue Mountain Dusk is one of those rarest of books of poetry, containing poems that ought to have been written, rather than poems that merely could have. McNulty is a careful poet, and the pieces in this book are the hard, clean nuggets left in the gold pan after washing and washing over and over. The love poems alone are worth the read, tender, and subtly erotic. As an observer of the natural world, this poet rates right up there with the best of the Chinese poets, or Robinson Jeffers in our own country. This is an honest poet, and these are honest poems.
About the author
Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist, conservation activist, and nature writer. He was born and grew up in Connecticut's Quinnipiac River Valley and attended Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. There he met poet Denise Levertov who inspired him with her powerful fusion of visionary poetics and political activism. Tim traveled throughout the West after college and settled on the Olympic Peninsula in 1972. He lives with his wife, Mary Morgan, in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains above the Dungeness and Graywolf rivers. A passionate spokesman for the wild, Tim remains active in the Northwest environmental community.Tim's poems, essays, criticism, and articles on nature and conservation have appeared in numerous publications in the U.S. and abroad. His natural history writings have been translated into German, Chinese, and Japanese. He reads, lectures, teaches, and conducts workshops throughout the Northwest.Tim is the author of nine books of poetry and eleven books of natural history. He has coauthored, with photographer Pat O'Hara, an award-winning series of books on national parks. Tim's Olympic National Park: A Natural History won the Washington Governor's Writers Award and was reissued in a new revised edition by the University of Washington Press. His Washington's Mount Rainier National Park, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, is available from The Mountaineers Books. Ascendance and Through High Still Air are available from Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. http://timmcnultypoet.com/
