Canopy: Poems – Powerful Poetry on Climate Crisis, Mortality, and Being Human in the Ecosystem - Couverture souple

Gregerson, Linda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0358622255 ISBN 13 : 9780358622253

Editeur : Ecco, 2022

Synopsis

A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from “a contemporary master”*—a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *Los Angeles Review of Books

Linda Gregerson’s long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, “in a world where every breath I take is luck.”

From the Syrian refugee and ecological crises, to police brutality and COVID, to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, the poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn strangers?

The magnificent poems in Canopy catalogue and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.

How does a poet reckon with a world in crisis?

• Poems About Grief and Loss: Navigating the space between mourning a loved one and mourning strangers, these poems ask how we can carry sorrow in a world of constant crisis.
• Environmental Poetry: From the Global Seed Vault buried in permafrost to the larger ecosystem, this collection confronts the radical fragility of our planet with a clear, unflinching eye.
• Poems About Social Justice: Bearing witness to police brutality, the refugee crisis, and the pandemic, Gregerson catalogues the human cost of a tumultuous decade.
• Lyrical and Literary Voice: A collection that confirms why Linda Gregerson is called "a contemporary master," where every line is a reminder that "every breath I take is luck."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Linda Gregerson is the author of six previous collections of poetry, most recently of Prodigal: New and Selected Poems. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0358622255
• ISBN 13: 9780358622253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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