we hear from poet and editor jeffrey yang.caught up with him earlier this year at new york city's highline-- the elevated park on manhattan's west side. he talked about how poets have grappled with the power of nature over the centuries. here's our encore look. >> the air consisted in believing that the earth was ours, when the reality of the situation is that we belong to the earth. >> my name is jeffrey yang and i work as an editor in new directions publishing. i've been there 11 years, i'm also a poet and for our 75th anniversary this year at new direction i edited this collection of nature poems called birds-- and seeds culled from 75 years of new directions publishing history. we've seen so many natural disasters this year, with floods and wildfires in this country, tsunami in japan, i think it's on people's minds a lot. i think poetry in general brings us to a certain kind of awareness about things. with nature poetry a lot of these poems might not come directly out of, say, a natural disaster. but a lot of the poems, i