About the Author

Gus Speth recently served as dean of Yale's school of environment and forestry and as professor of law at Vermont Law School. At the United Nations, he was the head of the UN's Development Program. Prior to that, he was co-founder of both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), where he led on many environmental issues over a period of 17 years. During the Carter years, he served as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Speth currently serves as co-chair of the Next System Project. He and his wife Cameron (Cece), and their dogs Capers and Folly, divide their time between central Vermont and coastal South Carolina.

Reviews

A book of temporality and noticing, Gus Speth's latest 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. One poem asks what could be the most central and moving concern of the book: How to reach the human heart? A beautiful book. -- Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise and director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference at Middlebury CollegeIn It's Already Tomorrow, 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 Praise for Speth's What We Have Instead: Distinguished Favorite Independent Press Award for PoetrySpeth's poetic style and structure vary, from spare, sometimes wry, free verse to rhyming quatrains. He brings an eye for telling detail and a unique outlook to well-known topics. (The poems) chronicle scenes from everyday life, milestones both triumphant and tragic, and musings on politics, history, aging and forgiveness. --The (VT-NH) Valley News...sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant... the author paints an expansive world. He has a gift for this, first drawing the details, and then reminding us of a bigger world. --The Randolph (VT) Herald