Peggy Pond Church lived and wrote in the American Southwest in the early twentieth century, when the region's culture and natural beauty were being discovered by the Eastern literary establishment. D. H. Lawrence moved to Taos, New Mexico, in 1922, and others such as Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, Vachel Lindsay, and the influential editor of Poetry, Harriet Monroe, visited and found the area beautiful. The transplanted Midwestern author Mary Austin even predicted that the Southwest would be the site of the next American Renaissance. Church was associated with the Santa Fe writers' group of the 1920s and 1930s (including Austin; Alice Corbin Henderson, Monroe's assistant at Poetry; and Haniel Long), and while her work has received little critical attention, it is among the most evocative and lasting poetry of the region. One cannot understand Church's poetry without understanding her lifelong love of her native New Mexico and its landscape...