"I love the spirit of the project behind You Are Here--especially Ada Limón's encouragement to readers to get outside and write our own You Are Here poems. Unfortunately, I felt like Limón's introduction was among the best parts of the collection. I only connected with a handful of the poems included. I think I went in expecting nature poetry in the mode of Wendell Berry or Mary Oliver. But these poems are...different than that. Several of them are surprisingly disconnected from the natural world. Like Dr. Ian Malcolm, I occasionally found myself wondering, "Will there be any nature in your nature poem?" I mean, sure, we humans are nature ourselves, but I wanted critters, trees, and transcendence.

That said, I did like aspects of the collection. First, I applaud the choice to include poet bios with each poem, rather than leaving those until the end of the book. Even if I didn't read each one thoroughly, it was nice to briefly orient myself to the writer, and to note possibilities for further reading. And of course, there were some exquisite poems. My favorites include "You Belong to the World" by Carrie Fountain, "Mouth of the Canyon" by Traci Brimhall (Kansas! Woot!), "Taking the Magnolia" by Paisley Rekdal, "Manifesto of Fragility/Terraform" by Erika Meitner, and "Heliophilia" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil."