The Wild Garlic Manifesto
Martin Settle

The Wild Garlic Manifesto is a call to readers to reclaim a sense of wonder in the world around them. With wit and heartfelt wisdom, Martin Settle has crafted nature poems that carry out what astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson called “a responsibility to awe.” In this work, Settle suggests that our species’ spiritual survival depends on its ability to hitch the human imagination to the greater evolutionary imagination. In answer to the quicksand philosophies and exhausted religious theologies of our times, he claims there is food enough for the monastery of the mind in the great symbiosis of ecology.

Martin Settle is a writer, teacher, and assemblage artist in Charlotte, North Carolina. He taught English for 32 years, the last 17 at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Settle is the author of eight books (two memoirs, an art design book, a joke book, and four books of poetry). He has been awarded the Thomas McDill Award and the Poetry of Courage Award (both from the North Carolina Poetry Society), the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, and the Griffin-Farlow Haiku Award. His work has been published in The New York Times, Kakalak, North Carolina Literary Review, and many others.

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