While best known for his fiction, Edward Abbey was also an enthusiastic creator of verse. Earth Apples, Abbey's first and only collection of poetry, adds to his literary reputation as an irreverent writer. Whether writing about vast desert landscapes, New York City, or a love of bawdy women, Abbey's verse is eloquent and unapologetically passionate. The poems gathered here, published digitally for the first time, are culled from Abbey's journals and give an insightful and unique glance into the mind of this literary legend.
Poems about love and landscapes by the author of the classic
Desert Solitaire, an "environmentalist, nature writer, novelist and all-around iconoclast" (
The New York Times).
While better known for his nature writing and his comic classic
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey was also an enthusiastic creator of verse. The
New York Times called his memoir
Desert Solitaire "deeply poetic"-and now
Earth Apples gives us his actual poetry, in Abbey's first and only collection.
Whether writing about vast desert landscapes, New York City, or a love of bawdy women, Abbey's verse is eloquent, irreverent, and unapologetically passionate. The poems gathered here, published digitally for the first time, are culled from Abbey's journals and give an insightful and unique glance into the mind of this literary legend.
