Parsimony Author:David Troupes David Troupes' collection "Parsimony" contains poems of possibility and survival. Crafted sometimes with playfulness and always with technical precision, David is eager to stoke that part of us which finds peace in the woods. In language by turns mellifluous and metallic, in poems which swing between the Scottish Borders and the woods of his nat... more »ive Massachusetts, David Troupes betrays and explores a troubling ambivalence toward our place in the natural world. Interwoven with this thread of difficult rapture are poems of private crisis, offering a hard-won perspective on those days when everything, for no apparent reason, seems wrong.« less