“In her debut collection, After Rain, Nan Becker proves that the nature poem—an endangered species—is alive and well. She writes of geese, flying/ahead of their echoes. She observes, Heavy carp muscle past, dragging their shadows. In hard-won poems that are spare, sonorous, wise, Becker proves an able guide to the natural world and to the human heart.”
— Suzanne Cleary, author of Trick Pear and Keeping Time