Wound Is the Origin of Wonder - Poems

Award-winning poet Maya C. Popa suggests that our restless desires are inseparable from our mortality in this pressing and precise collection. Rooting out profound meaning in language to wrench us from the moorings of the familiar and into the realm of the extraordinary, the volume asks, how do we articulate what's by definition inarticulable? Where does sight end and imagination begin?

Lucid and musically rich, these poems sound an appeal to a dwindling natural world and summon moments from the lives of literary forbearers-John Milton's visit to Galileo, a vase broken by Marcel Proust-to unveil fresh wonder in the unlikely meetings of the past. Popa dramatizes the difficulties of loving a world that is at once rich with beauty and full of opportunities for grief, and reveals that the natural arc of wonder, from astonishment to reflection, more deeply connects us with our humanity.

About the author

Maya C. Popa is most recently the author ofWound Is the Origin of Wonder. She is the founder of Conscious Writers Collective, an online community for writers. The poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she lives in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Maya C Popa, Maya C. Popa
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9781324076216
• ISBN: 978-1-324-07621-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 95 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; NATURE / General, Poetry, natural history, Poetry by individual poets, Nature and the natural world: general interest, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature, Poetry / poems by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry / poems