cover image Sightlines

Sightlines

Terry Osborne. University Press of New England, $26 (155pp) ISBN 978-1-58465-083-6

Over 12 years, Terry Osborne came to terms with his depression while exploring the valley behind his house in Vermont. Osborne, who teaches English and environmental studies at Dartmouth College, compares the psychological landscape to forests and wild animals in Sightlines: The View of a Valley Through the Voice of Depression. ""Our deepest interior is probably as unpolished and wild as the land's."" Though we come to know the valley far better than we do Osborne, his marvelous description of finding peace in nature's ""fluidity"" brings a peaceful close to his account.