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Cherry Grove Collections 2021

ISBN 978-1625493835

"In Don't Sing to Me of Electric Fences, Dave Seter enters into philosophical conversation with the seemingly doomed natural world; a conversation conscious of the fact that while we hold agency over nature's fate, nature holds agency over its own survival." 

- Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of I

Cherry Grove Collections 2021

ISBN 978-1625493835

"In Don't Sing to Me of Electric Fences, Dave Seter enters into philosophical conversation with the seemingly doomed natural world; a conversation conscious of the fact that while we hold agency over nature's fate, nature holds agency over its own survival." 

- Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of Interrupted Geographies, Poet Laureate Emerita, Sonoma County

" In these poems animals and landscapes connect through a human lens but also reveal how our human point of view is only one of many perspectives. An ecological treatise that celebrates the natural world, these wonderful poems shepherd us to read with care and compassion for everything around us."

- Judy Halebsky, author of Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)

Mammoth Publications 2025

ISBN 978-1-939301-58-1  

"The vitality, humor, and compassion of these poems is infectious. Grounded in our interconnectedness with plants, animals, rivers, and soil, these poems unfold histories of environmental degradation, particularly to Native land, and the complexities of repair. They share a deep care for th

Mammoth Publications 2025

ISBN 978-1-939301-58-1  

"The vitality, humor, and compassion of these poems is infectious. Grounded in our interconnectedness with plants, animals, rivers, and soil, these poems unfold histories of environmental degradation, particularly to Native land, and the complexities of repair. They share a deep care for the world and nurture us to be better humans."

 — Judy Halebsky, author of Tree Line

" What does it mean to be alive and awake in this broken world and to have looked at this world carefully and scientifically? It’s a question at the center of this narratively rich collection. A question that Seter makes us return to again and again because, as he writes, “When fog comes it won’t divide us from lichen and moss./ We will breathe. We will just be ourselves, breathing.” 

—Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of four poetry collections, including West: Fire: Archive

Main Street Rag  2010

ISBN: 978-1-59948-231-6

"With real language told from the seats of Fords and Chevys, Dave Seter brings us along for a literary ride. On the way, we’ll take a hard look at our streets, gutters, culture, and-thanks to the author’s considerable artistic skill-we’ll witness transformation as he manages to take “the desolat

Main Street Rag  2010

ISBN: 978-1-59948-231-6

"With real language told from the seats of Fords and Chevys, Dave Seter brings us along for a literary ride. On the way, we’ll take a hard look at our streets, gutters, culture, and-thanks to the author’s considerable artistic skill-we’ll witness transformation as he manages to take “the desolation of dirty concrete, impregnate it with beauty.” His compassionate yet unflinching eye gives us a chance to look around, see what’s been built, what’s fallen, what happens when “the underworld leaks” and we get to inhale it, taste it. Every page of Night Duty is a shotglass full of working class poetics."

–William Keener, author of Gold Leaf on Granite, winner of the 2008 Anabiosis Press Poetry Prize