Harvest and Other Poems

About the Book

In his new book Harvest Rod Grant uses his verse to explore the current state of humanity as well as its prospects for the future as Homo Sapiens. In the title poem Harvest, he uses his experience gardening as a springboard to a hopeful outlook for his personal future. In Solstice, the book’s final poem, he looks to the Earth’s yearly cycles to ponder his own mortality.

About the Author

Rod Grant is a philosopher, artist and world traveler. After receiving a degree in philosophy from the University of California, he pursued a career in the Foreign Service with assignments in Europe, Asia and the United States. He retired to the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington with its mountain, forests, rivers and sea from which he draws inspiration for his poems. He now lives in a retirement community in northern Virginia. He brings a lifetime of experience, contemplation and wisdom to his carefully crafted verse.