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
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780358671053
• ISBN: 978-0-358-67105-3
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Narrative theme: Love and relationships, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, NATURE: Environmental Conservation & Protection, LITERATURE: POETRY, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Literature / Poetry