Voices of Lobos

About the Book

Voices of Lobos is a suite of poems (and one prose piece) written about a particular place, Point Lobos, a wildlife reserve and marine sanctuary, on the California coast just south of Carmel. They evoke several of the many voices one can hear there, from the natural voices of rock, water and wildlife, to the voices of the half dozen human cultures who have inhabited the place, to some of the 18 or so "industries" that have existed there, from whaling to quarrying.

About the Author

Photograph by Fred Brown Robert Weston Robert Weston’s first published collection of poems, Certainties (2006), contained poems written over 40 years from his time as a graduate student and Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellow at Stanford University. He has been a docent at the Point Lobos Wildlife Reserve since 2006 and this collection of poems (Voices of Lobos) is his response to the scene and some of the history of the place known as Point Lobos. He has studied the geology, the pre-history, and some of the cultural episodes that took place there and his poems celebrate the natural and cultural diversity of the place. A collection of non-Lobos poems, Affirmations and Contradictions, is due to be published this year. He has lived in Pacific Grove, California, since 2002.