The Principle of Rapid Peering

 A lyrical guide through Saskatchewan’s Aspen Parkland by a poet whose work is “fizzing with ecological intellect” (Times Literary Supplement). Self-seeding wind is a wind of ever-replenishing breath.         —from “The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering”  The title of Sylvia Legris’ melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behavi