Books by Barbara Spring

The Dynamic Great Lakes is a critically acclaimed non-fiction book about changes in all five interconnected Great Lakes in the United States and Canada.

The Wilderness Within is a book of poetry and essays drawn from wild places on Planet Earth.

Sophia's Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below is a book of poems.

Many fine bookstores carry these books including Schuler Books and Music, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and Amazon's Kindle for the Dynamic Great Lakes.

Soon to be published is Between Sweetwater and Sand, a book of poems.

Marram Grass


Roots of marram grass weave fine
webs under the sands as
a network expands
thousands of feet.
Stalks bow down to west winds
and multiply season after season
until the tasseled dune
waves with green grace.
Each year the dunes grow higher
in tasseled grasses
in marram grasses’
loving embrace.
--Barbara Spring
Excerpted from Sophia's Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below

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Sophia’s Lost and Found:Poems of Above and Below

My other books are The Dynamic Great Lakes non fiction

The Wilderness Within poems and essays from wild places in the world.

Barbara Spring is a former university professor, and journalist and environmental activist. I have published three books:
The Dynamic Great Lakes is about what lies below the waters of the five Great Lakes and the importance of their ecosystems. The book is for the general public and may be used in schools from middle school on up. Folks who like to fish, boat, kayak, and just beach comb are enjoying this book. It has a search inside feature on Amazon.com and it has been updated in a fourth critically acclaimed edtion.  When ordered from this link, the price is $9,95 + s&h. http://www.publishamerica.net/product23502.html

My book of poems, The Wilderness Within has a look inside feature on Amazon.com. It received wonderful reviews. These are nature poems and a couple of essays. The poems are from many countries and about many peoples.

Sophia's Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below is now available on line and in bookstores. Sophia personifies wisdom and sometimes she seems to be lost to humans.

Lake Michigan Ice

Lake Michigan Ice

All the long night west winds roar

boom icy shrapnel on the shores:

cannonballs fly, bounce, roll, clatter

ice on ice crunch, bash, shatter.

Curled green walls of glassy jade

smash on pack ice wave on wave

tremble out high icy plumes

fans of white peacock

collapse, resume.

Waves slap hands, gleeful high fives

slam dance back—twist, leap, dive.

Hard daggers dazzle caves of ice—

a crevice opens then

closes like a vice.

Wind waves ice in wild dance.

Lake Michigan ice packs

on a spree.

Angels dressed in red and green

walk the shores

on days like these.

This poem is an excerpt from my book, Sophia's Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below.  It may be ordered from Amazon.com or bn.com.