From Library Journal The austerity of Maine's coastal land- and seascapes provides the context within which Eberhartone of American poetry's most honored elderscontinues to probe the relationship between humanity's finite passions and nature's "wordless impersonality." The result is neither a summer travelogue nor a catalog of New England fauna, but a register of ambivalence, of the desire to comprehend what lies "beyond the reach of intellect" while at the same time savoring the mystery. Blunt questions ("What is man?" "What am I doing in the world?") give way to the book's concluding line: "Ultimately the best is in not knowing." Traditional, direct, Frostian, Eberhart's new work sometimes skirts the obvious, but the importance and vitality of its concerns are undeniable.Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.