THE WAYS Poems of Affirmation, Remembrance, Reflection and Wonder

WINNER of The Before Columbus Foundation's AMERICAN BOOK AWARD

THE WAYS is Everett Hoagland's best book so far. I especially appreciate [his] work written during and about the endless pandemic...he nails it." - MARTÍN ESPADA, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry

"With Everett Hoagland's latest book, I am once again impressed by his skill and precision with language...it is breath taking." - devorah major, Poet Laureate Emerita, San Francisco, California

"This collection of Everett Hoagland's mainly meditative poems will serve you as a spiritual resource for when you need support in your strivings for justice; for when you need to contemplate the depths of reality; for when you need spiritual refreshment....And when you are done, feel yourself re-energized, revitalized, ready to move forward..." - Reverend Dan Harper, Unitarian Church, Palo Alto, CA.

This is a collection of mainly "quiet" and contemplative poems. Most are new, written during the current pandemic; the other poems are good fits from his sixty years of previous publications...inspired by family, philosophical questions, manifestations of love and compassion, and aspects of the natural world in which Hoagland has found sanctuary, inspiration and some serenity during Covid.