Approaching Pianowood Harbor

By: Michael Spring

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Paperback | 12 April 2025

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"These poems of Michael Spring are filled with abundant care. He deepens the process of finding alchemy in nature, aligned with both wilderness and wildness."

- Sara Backer

Approaching Pianowood Harbor is the final collection from award-winning poet Michael Spring. He had completed the manuscript, which earned Honorable Mention in the 2024 Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award, before he passed in 2024.

John Amen writes in a Foreword that "Spring's unsentimental yet reverent appreciation for nature, and its role in human development, was an integral part of his poetic work. There's an undeniable interdependence between humanity and earth, he suggests; we're made of the earth, the earth is made of us. We're inseparable."

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Michael Spring had a coastal nature, which filled his poetry with salt-air and sea spray, whether from the Atlantic or the Pacific. In this latest-and, sadly, last-volume of poems I can see him leaning towards the shore, squinting for perspective over the blue-green map of water. While we will miss the man, the legacy of his work will live on.

-Scott Edward Anderson, author of Azorean Suite/Suite A§oriana

These poems of Michael Spring are filled with abundant care. He deepens the process of finding alchemy in nature, aligned with both wilderness and wildness. The surreal turning of a "phone into a lobster" embraces recognition of "a new future self." Later, this self is followed by "I'm losing my mind, finally -into this old way of dreaming." His distinctive details are sublime. In Michael's words from a poem dedicated to his wife: "I will risk falling in love with every word you speak." Take the risk!

-Sara Backer, author of Such Luck

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