Robert Michael Pyle: Evolution of the Genus IRIS - Poems

Mr. Pyle will be joined by Peninsula treasures Alice Derry and Tim
McNulty

How wonderful to have one of our best … nature writers turn assuredly
to poetry. Robert Michael Pyle has a scientist's precise eye, the
earthy experience of a field biologist, the vast knowledge and
lexicon of a scholar and the sensibility and wisdom of a very fine
poet. We feel an immediate intimacy with the plants and animals he
recreates. Pyle loves the living world—as savage as it is—and in
poem after wonderful poem he offers the natural promise of beauty and
renewal.

– Henry Hughes

Robert Michael Pyle's voice is an essential element in the culture of our
literary and scientific community. Bob Pyle's eighteen books include
the John Burroughs Medal Winner “Wintergreen.