
HERE: Poems for the Planet
Elizabeth J. Coleman(Editor)
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Published on 6. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-55659-541-7 (ISBN)
Description
HERE is fierce poetic imagination that faces indifference and cynicism with a rallying call for individual activism and collective action.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-541-7 (9781556595417)
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Persons
An anthology of contemporary poets writing for a planet in crisis, speaking in diverse voices from praise to witness to grief-and into action.
Content
I. WHERE YOU'D WANT TO COME FROM: POEMS FOR OUR PLANET
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee: Invitation
Dawes, Kwame: Shook Foil
Abani, Chris: Descent 2
Kho'I, Esma'il: Image of Kindness
May, Jamaal: There Are Birds Here
Arthur, James: Wind
Uribe, Kirmen: Don't Make It a Choice
Logmansbo, Valdemar A.: Spring Song
d'Aquino, Alfonso: Black Bee
Corpi, Lucha: Letter to Arturo
Grotz, Jennifer: Poppies
Geldman, Mordechai: Almost Flowers
Valentine, Jean: The Valley
Calderazzo, John: Douglas Fir Falling
Berry, Wendell: The Peace of Wild Things
II. THE GENTLE LIGHT THAT VANISHES: OUR ENDANGERED WORLD
Seibles, Tim: First Verse
McCallum, Shara: Why Madwoman Shouldn't Read the News
Brathwaite, Kamau: Colombe
Diaz, Natalie: How the Milky Way Was Made
Mead, Jane: Money
Olds, Sharon: Ode to the Last Thirty-Eight Trees in New York City Visible From This Window
Hicok, Bob: Hold your breath: a song of climate change
Kane, Joan Naviyuk: The Straits
Pusteria, Fabio: Star, Meteor, Some Shooting Thing
Medina, Pablo: The Floating Island
Trethaway, Natasha: Theories of Time and Space
Doshi, Tishani: Lament II
Naficy, Majid: To a Snail
Hahn, Kimiko: The Fever
Dooley, Maura: Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide
Merwin, W.S.: Thanks
Young Patricia: Ruin and Beauty
Waldman, Ann: Anthropocene Blues
III. AS IF THEY'D NEVER BEEN: POEMS FOR THE ANIMALS
Sholl, Betsy: To a Bat Fallen in the Street
Atwood, Margaret: Elegy for the Giant Tortoises
Brown, Nickole: A Prayer to Talk to Animals
Macari, Anne Marie: Migration South
Gonzales, Rigoberto: The Slaughterhouse
Kasichke, Laura: Pregnant at the All-Night Supermarket
Saje, Natasha: We Saw No Caribou
Smith, Tracy K.: A Hunger So Honed
Griffiths, Rachel Eliza: The Human Zoo
Livingston, Chip: Punta del Este Pantoum
Qin, Shang: Rooster
Alexei, Sherman: Small Ceremonies
IV. THE OCEAN WITHIN THEM: VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Bannon, Griffin: How to Be a Hawk
Arrastia-Nowak, Betye: I Am Like a Caterpillar
Roe, Maia: Midmorning, Summer Rain
Tahajian, Talin: Variations on a Mountain Skink
Beckwith, Julia: every sunrise is a sunset, somewhere
Keener, Olivia: The Peaceful Lake
Adler-Bermudez, Ekiway: Quetzalcoatl
Brown, Lauryn: Voice
Friedman, Katie: Haiku
V. LIKE YOU ARE NEW TO THE WORLD: FROM INSPIRATION TO ACTION
Bringhurst, Robert: The Occupation
Hass, Robert: Meditation at Lagunitas
Francis, Vivee: A Small Poem
Alvarez, Julia: Bilingual Sestina
McLarney, Rosa: After the Removal of Thirty Types...
Kaplinski, Jaan: From childhood on
Hillman, Brenda: The Seeds Talk Back to Monsanto
Huerta, David: Before the Protest in the Street is Dispersed
Chincangana, Fredy: Handful of Earth
Georges, Danielle Legros: Intersection
Rajendra, Cecil: My Message
Barquet, Jesus J.: Robinson
Danladi, Chekwube O.: My Mother's Sister Schools Me On Her Garden
Brimhall, Traci: Fledgling
Snyder, Gary: For the Children
Baberoon, Gabeba: My Tongue Softens on the Other Name
Gay, Ross: Poem for My Child if Ever You Shall Be
Roberson, Ed: be careful
Page, P.K.: Planet Earth