Meditations from the Anthropocene Surfacing Kathleen Jamie Penguin, 2019. 256 pp. Erosion: Essays of Undoing Terry Tempest Williams Sarah Crichton Books, 2019. 334 pp

A pair of writers consider Earth's changing landscapes In Surfacing , Kathleen Jamie—one of Scotland's leading poets and an exquisite prose writer—tracks travel observations and reflects on the passage of time. Terry Tempest Williams's Erosion is inspired by Utah's burnished buttes and canyons, where erosion creates vistas of unexpected beauty. Although they work with very different sensibilities—Jamie as a writer of poetic restraint and Williams one of rhetorical insistence— these two authors are among the most accomplished environmental writers working today. We need both voices as we face the challenges before us.