Terrain.org reviews in this issue:
  

A Certain Harmony, A Definitive Hope
Simmons B. Buntin reviews A Conservationist Manifesto, by Scott Russell Sanders

A Conservationist Manifesto is about that imagining, a book that sets out to map “the practical, ecological, and ethical grounds for a conservation ethic” by arguing—in a series of 15 eloquently linked essays—that the practice of conservation is both a personal and a public virtue, that the fate of our built and natural communities, in all their integrated constructs, ultimately comes down to each of us, and to all of us.

Walking the Perimeter
Heather Killelea McEntarfer reviews The Trouble with Black Boys and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education, by Pedro A. Noguera

With a background as a professor, urban sociologist, and school consultant, Noguera draws from a deep well of experience with schools. He culls stories from that experience and from his own life as black man and father to two sons, then weaves those stories with educational research, theory, and history. The style adds relevance and specificity to his arguments and lends the book easily to a wide readership.

Uncertain Delights
Kim Barke reviews Unexpected Light, poems by C. E. Chaffin

Poetry and psychiatry rarely meet, and yet the novelty of that marriage is not the reason that Chaffin’s book is so engaging. It is his writing, when he’s not in a narrative or expounding mood which offers the momentum to carry the reader through this decade-long collection that spans an eclectic mix of subject matter, from clinical anxiety to the Chinese New Year in L.A.

Crazy for Crazy Love
Terrain.org reviews Crazy Love, new poems by Pamela Uschuk

Uschuk’s poems cut into the world, and so the reader, with a driving combination of narrative and lyrical verse that makes you want to sing of the world’s light despite the darkness. There’s no time, nor any longer the desire, to rest your head on your pint glass and slough away the day.