James Arthur’s first collection, Charms against Lightning, was published in 2012. He is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins.
The crew come from all over, because the money is that good. Women, men – many are students planting as a summer job, moiling in the mud, sweating bug spray. One day off, four on, in cut-offs above long johns, with a bag of saplings...
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