Atmospheric Landscapes of North America: Concord poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798876400116)

(Finalist, INDIE Poetry Book of the Year, 2024) In the 1830s and '40s, America was ascendant. A new thinking - based on a deep trust in nature, intuitive thinking, spiritual self-reflection, and optimism - was radiating from Concord, Massachusetts, through the exuberant writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their neighbors.

But in January 1842, tragedies struck Emerson and Thoreau. Atmospheric Landscapes of North America (Cumberland) recreates their calendar of sorrow, exploring how the two friends struggled to keep hold of the American newness they helped create. Myers illustrated the book with his monochromes.