Earth Tones

By Dave Pruett

Photographers and poets are kindred spirits. The duty of each is to see; that is, to see what most fail to see.  The poems in Earth Tones embrace wide-ranging psychological, spiritual, and scientific themes: coming of age, individuation, meditation and contemplation, ecological awareness, cosmology, and evolution. Similarly, photog

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alba Enterprises LLC
• Release date: Aug 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9780578687216

Dave Pruett

Dave Pruett is a retired computational scientist and academic applied mathematician with a decade of aerospace experience at NASA Langley Research Center and nearly three decades of university teaching in Virginia. He is also the author of Reason and Wonder, "a love letter to the cosmos," which garnered an American Library Association Choice Award shortly following its publication in 2012.

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Earth Tones

Copyright © 2020 by Dave Pruett. All rights reserved.

Published in the USA by ALBA ENTERPRISES LLC.

Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Publisher Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pruett, Dave (Charles David), 1948 –

Earth Tones / Dave Pruett

ISBN: 978-0-578-68720-9 (Paperback)

1. POETRY / General

2. PHOTOGRAPHY / General

3. NATURE / General

Typeset by the author using the MEMOIR class of LATEX.

Front and back cover designs by the author.

All photographs by the author.

ISBN: 978-0-578-68720-9 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-0-578-68721-6 (e-book)

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