Fall for the Book 2019

Cole Swensen’s latest collection of poetry, On Walking On, uses a captivating mixture of poetry, historical research, and micro-essays to examine walking--particularly writers for whom walking was a daily habit. From Chaucer to Wordsworth and Thoreau to Woolf, Swensen has created a sprawling anthology of writers who were walkers, and of the changing landscape on which they left their footprints. Publisher’s Weekly calls On Walking On a “sonorous and attentive collection... These poems get into the body, turning the reader’s attention to Swenson’s long, steadily percussive lines.” Sponsored by the Creative Writing program.