Ann Shurgin

The Medicine Woods

Arts & Literature

“Stop and listen. You can hear it, feel it. Look more closely than you ever have. From holy trees and river stones to the five-lined skink, come and explore the healing power of the medicine woods. Deeply rooted in her Appalachian home, yet a wanderer in the wider world, Dodson is devoted to nature and spirituality. In these powerful poems, each one a meditation, she has reaffirmed for me the importance of defending the earth.”