Pilgrim at Token Creek
If the title of Robert Alexander’s New and Selected, Finding Token Creek, reminds you at all of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, that would be apropos. Much as Dillard’s lauded book meditates on the natural world, so too does much of Finding Token Creek. Whereas Tinker Creek is a kind of love letter to Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Token Creek pays close attention to the natural minutiae of the upper Midwest where we, as readers, are allowed to tag along in the speaker’s canoe, a speaker who seems most at home in quiescence, cataloguing bird species or waiting patiently for the region’s fauna to surprise him.
~ Sonia Greenfield, Plume Poetry