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Span is a selection of poems written by David A. Martin, reflecting a unique undercurrent in the reawakening of environmental consciousness in the American west.

David A. Martin, an environmental educator and naturalist, focuses on two central themes in SPAN: man's separation from nature and man's return to union with nature.

Martin expresses the consequences of alienation from nature as disastrous to the individual, humanity and the rest of the world. The poems in Span exemplify the reunification, or possibly, ascension of man living in harmony with nature as a place of hope, healing, redemption and salvation of not only the individual, but also the human race and the rest of the world.