In The Moral Ambiguity of America, Goodman clearly reveals his postwar disenchantment with Enlightenment conceptions of science, technology, truth, knowledge, and power relations. This book also provides an insightful look at Goodman's involvement with the student movements of the tumultuous 1960s, and it offers an excellent evaluation of those models of participatory democracy that many groups developed from Goodman's ideas.

A Resting Place is a poetic exploration into the places where we seek out peace in times of anxiety. The poems were written over a 15 year period and are witnesses to the author's solitary moments in nature. We also find in these poems how the need to know about ourselves through nature is still important, as it was for Emerson or Thoreau a century and half ago. The book's structure imitates nature's cycle, beginning with spring, passing through all the seasons until that moment of rebirth.

Human Geography is a story about one woman's and one man's desire to share their love in a pursuit of having a family. At the same time, they are faced with an overreaching power that wants to stop them. So, they decide to risk all their comforts to experience that shared common goal, even when their noble passion provides them with little hope. But in the end their will to exercise their humanity to its fullest becomes a guiding light in this universal quest for individual and communal love. The setting is present or near future, and the place where the play is situated can make it a...