"A culmination of twenty-five years of work on the "pastoral" and "landscape," The New Arcadia is John Kinsella's most fully realized work yet. Viewing his native Western Australia with different lenses zooming in and out - macro and micro and wide-angle - it's a snapshot and a time lapse, a "new" pastoral that recognizes the cultural inheritance as well as the cultural baggage of the bucolic."--Jacket.