Terrae Nullius

William L. Fox has developed a minimalist poetic style over fifty years that is well-suited to the planet's vast empty places. He is director emeritus of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno and works as an art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer. Fox has published seventeen books on cognition and landscape, hundreds of essays, and sixteen poetry collections. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"William Fox's Terra Nullius reads like an atlas of unknown lands--places we might turn to were it not such a noisy time. These poems are coordinates of reflection that bend in and out of our awareness of this place we live on. This book is the culmination of a lifetime spent working at a definition for living with the geography of isolation. Fox will take the reader far from here to the threshold of standing in these places." --Shaun T. Griffin, Nevada State Poet Laureate (2024-2026), author of No Charity in the Wilderness: Poems "Using spare lines and precise turns of language, this book holds a jeweler's loupe up to the universe. It celebrates the specificity of place while helping reveal the interconnectedness of all terrain, all geography. If they ever offer an Artist in Residency on the International Space Station, I nominate Bill Fox to go first." --Charles Hood, author of South x South and Partially Excited State