William N. McKeachie

Water under Snow

Arts & Literature

“Stevens’s small gems of descriptive precision and imaginative range reflect the indwelling soul of things both ‘wild and domestic,’ the mystery inhabiting ordinary things . . . . So it is that I have come to value Ralph Stevens not only as a scholar of the poetry of George Herbert but as himself a poet in that very lineage. Water under Snow, his latest collection of poems, overflows with underlying life—life within, life beyond.”