John Elder

Downstream

“This book traces and enacts the intricacies of confluence within the Appalachian chain's fissured topography. Just as the rich terminology related to aquatic invertebrates, the life cycle of trout, and fly-tying gathers into a larger ecological, geological, and social vision, so too the distinctive voices of these two fine writers join in a moving dialogue on friendship and family, literature and the land.”

The Bonds of Nest and Urn

Arts & Literature

“In The Bonds of Nest and Urn, Jefferson Holdridge maps an ecotone where memory and the close observation of nature are entangled. In this passionate and rewarding collection he is drawn again and again to the mysteries of succession, in which birdsong becomes a portal and redemption is always on the run.”