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The Decipherment of Nature

Year

2025

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

RITONA

Summary

From multiple author and poet Philip Kane comes an astounding collection of poems that "turn the reader into ... a badger digging for the roots of stars." Playfully weaving together the ancient and the mundane, the poems in The Decipherment of Nature are an absolute delight for both the magically and poetically inclined.This was not meant when I cast the spellof rewilding, but here it is: the wolfthat licks at my face to wake me,bats among the rafters, shy deerthat hide under the dinner table.I follow the hollow way to my study,where I scratch runes into birch bark.

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