Nature is us and we are nature. Nature is out to kill us. Nature is heterosexual. Nature is gay. Nature is masculine. Nature is a woman. Nature is natural. Nature is culture. Nature is the nature of reality. Nature is a metaphor. Nature is like money. Nature is calling. Language is our nature. Few ideas today are as charged or subject to as many contradictory inflections as is nature.

To anchor its compositional investigations into its own material, Mark Truscott’s Nature considers the difficulties of this overdetermined concept and asks – without recourse to nostalgia, sanctimony, or moralism – what kind of space it might meaningfully create or occupy.

Mark Truscott's first book, Said Like Reeds or Things (Coach House, 2004), was shortlisted for a ReLit award and received an Alcuin citation for Darren Wershler-Henry's design. Poems appear in Pissing Ice: An Anthology of 'New`'Canadian Poets (BookThug, 2004) and in Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury, 2005). Mark was born in Bloomington, Indiana, but has spent most of his life in Canada. He lives in Toronto, where he co-edits the small magazine BafterC and curates the Test Reading Series.

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“full of lines sparse as recently clear-cut fields” — Canadian Literature