In The Sea Always Near, Warren's poems float above the mesas of Northern New Mexico while also sinking themselves into the problems, and beauty, of the whole planet-from China and Japan back to Cerro Pedernal in New Mexico then to the red dirt and Osage Hills of Oklahoma. Warren is the astronomer of not only the night sky, but also of the quiet reaches and reflected starlight of the New Mexican landscape. He reminds us we are Star Stuff. But he's also a Paleontologist, with a sharp eye on the bones and ancient splendors of the world. These wonderful poems in which ..".grace has turned every corner..." and " t]he whiteness of the page / goes on forever" speak to us in needed ways that so much contemporary poetry does not. -Nathan L. Brown, author of Two Tables Over, winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry