Canopy - Poems

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.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Gregerson, Gregerson Linda
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780358622253
• ISBN: 978-0-358-62225-3
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / General, POETRY: American / General, ART: History / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, NATURE: Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE: Global Warming & Climate Change, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING: Engineering (General), NATURE: Natural Disasters, LITERATURE: POETRY, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, DESIGN: Book