Some poems emanate from a particular geographical location or natural setting in a way that evokes what James Wright described as the "genius of place."  The poet concerned with place, after awhile, realizes that place has very little to do with geography.  Our geography is disappearing.  The poet inhabiting his or her own sense of place (home, or otherwise) must engage with the intimacies of his or her memory, particularly as the memory gravitates--inevitably--toward nostalgia.  So, we will take a look at work in which the accumulated power of sensory detail and landscape can both celebrate and transcend the purely local, purely geographical.