As Much Belowground as Above
…hears: “Already this word is greening. Already, the mosses surge over, the beetles and lichen and fungi turning the logs to soil. Already, seedlings root in the nurse logs’ crevices,…
…hears: “Already this word is greening. Already, the mosses surge over, the beetles and lichen and fungi turning the logs to soil. Already, seedlings root in the nurse logs’ crevices,…
…never becomes artificial, never strains for connection. Rather, it provides the novel with endless thematic and metaphorical delights, and it serves to strengthen the ties between these two characters. For…
…with startling honesty and insight, enmeshed with experiences of the natural world and the enduring drive to make art. The centerpiece of Reaching is a long poem, “The Edinburgh Postnatal…
…including those of immigrants, women, industrial workers, and agricultural laborers — in the foreground. Ruth Awad’s poem “My Father Dreams of a New Country” establishes this perspective, when the speaker…
…plant loom at the edges of these poems, but the abundance of the natural world provides the book’s emotional and spiritual power source. The smooth, polished voice of these poems…
…a place “without parallel,” where “the grim and the beautiful were locked together and that the men and women were owned by it in equal measure.” How has Appalachia worked…