"Settlers, Dabney Stuart's thirteenth collection of poems, is a passionate and innovative commentary on exploration and discovery. As the title suggests, the major themes of this work include beginnings in disparate but related areas - the historical, physical, geologic, familial, and psychological."--BOOK JACKET. "Settlers' theological implications become explicit in the final section, through the title poem, and more extensively in the long section entitled "God." In this thoughtful sequence, Stuart struggles to understand God's mystifying absence and presence."--BOOK JACKET.