# Facing Nature

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- Book: [Facing Nature](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/facing-nature) ([Facing Nature.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/facing-nature.md))
- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0796-194-5
- Published: 2012-04-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

John Updike’s fifth collection of poetry faces nature on a number of levels. An opening section of sonnets touches upon death, aging, and, in a sequence of describing a week in Spain, insomnia...