IT’S ALREADY TOMORROW
Gus Speth’s second book of poetry came out in 2020. Speth has organized this collection around four ways we address the world: Love, Howl, Laugh, and Remember, which “cover a lot of life’s territory.” He writes in one poem that “the world bends with the weight of massive contradiction,” and, as these poems depict, so do our lives.
Praise for Speth’s It’s Already Tomorrow
“A book of temporality and noticing, Gus Speth’s work nods to the future and to the past. His observations feel both earned and measured, wise and open-eyed. Speth infuses the book with hope and careful attention, but also sadness, helping us see what is on the verge of being lost... a beautiful book.”
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
Author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise and director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College
“...poet and environmentalist Gus Speth writes graceful poems from a long love affair with life, nature and family. These are poems about the shifting relationship between time, memory, and the environment. I enjoyed the humor, the dogs, the fishing, and the love letters. But reader, don’t expect to get off easy—there will be heartbreak along the way.”
— Richard Garcia
Author of Porridge and The Other Odyssey