Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Robinson Jeffers, and Theodore Roethke are among the poets Quetchenbach (English, Florida Southern College) examines to assess their attempts to find a public voice in poetry. He concludes that they have learned from their postwar generation techniques for adapting a personalized poetics to environmental advocacy, addressing the role of the poet in a society that does not recognize poetry, and reaching out to an audience defined by its shared interest in and devotion to subject matter rather than aesthetic preferences. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR