The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and ...

Green is the Orator follows on Sarah Gridley's brilliant first collection, Weather Eye Open , in addressing the challenge of representing nature through language. Gridley's deftly original syntax arises from direct experience of the natural wor...