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Book

You are here : poetry in the natural world

Call Number

  • 811 Y672 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, in association with the Library of Congress, 2024.

Physical Description

151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"For many years, 'nature poetry' has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry,' illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes--both literal and literary--are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape--be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop--offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States. Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting readers to experience both anew."--

Notes

Includes index.

"Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated writers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • Foreword / Introduction / You belong to the world / When the fact of your gaze means nothing, then you are truly alongside / Eat / Snapdragon / To a blossoming Saguaro / Nature, which cannot be driven to / A woman with a bird / An inn for the coven / Tower / You must be present / Redwoods / Parkside & Ocean / Aia i hea ka wai o Lahaina? / Lullaby for the grieving / Letters / We love in the only ways we can / Unendangered moths of the mid-twentieth century / Bad wolf / Rabbitbrush / Lighthouse / Mouth of the canyon / Aerial view / Canine superpowers / Four Freedoms Park / There are more ways to show devotion / Close-knit flower sack / Night shift in the home for convalescents / Quemado, Texas / Hackberry / Two deer in a Southside cemetery / Walking the land / Taking the magnolia / It was summer. The wind blew / I am learning to find the horizons of peace / Beneath the Perseids / The man in 119 / No ethical transition under late capitalism / Summer songs / Darkling I listen / Remembering a honeymoon hike near Drakes Bay, California, while I cook dinner at the feet of Colorado's Front Range / Manifesto of fragility / Terraform / If fire / Terroir / Staircase / To think of Italy while climbing the Saunders-Monticello Trail / Heliophilia / Central Iowa, Scenic Overlook / Twenty minutes in the backyard / To little Black girls, risking flower / Reasons to live

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