Project Description

Shaking the Grass for Dew

poems by Richard Lewis

Shaking the Grass for Dew
ISBN: 1-883197-14-7
New Native Press
2008
70 pages paperbound $14.95

Shaking the Grass for Dew can be seen, perhaps, as the modern Western equivalent of the great nature poets of the East – Wang Wei and Han-Shan come to mind. Richard Lewis writes a kind of surreal metaphysics untamed and unlike anything being written in America today. The Neruda of Tao-inspired poems, Lewis’s longer Issa-like, haiku-like poems are fresh with the dew from whence they came: a place deep in the spirit of nature. An amazing and timely vision from someone who has lived most of his life in New York City.

–Thomas Rain Crowe, Poet and Publisher, New Native Press

…offers profound and inspiring verse….a top choice for poetry fans.

–Midwest Book Review

Shaped by Japanese and other nature-inflected styles, these brief poems are deeply spiritual in their descriptions of elements, joy, love, and communion with the physical world.

–The Bardian