Thrilled that Here: Poems for the Planet is featured in this wonderful poetry newsletter by Eunice "Nicie" Johnson Panetta
This is a wonderful poetry newsletter by Eunice "Nicie" Johnson Panetta which I recommend, called the Frugal Chariot: Your weekly guide to exceptional books about nature, climate, and place.
She wrote this lovely review of Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press) in her last issue (#53). You can read it here: https://frugalchariot.substack.com/p/issue-53-?s=r
The lyric poem stops time to present an offering. The reader makes a gift of attention, and receives the poem. The poem can offer to the reader a praise song, a lament, the chance to laugh, a warning, a portrait, a prayer, and many other things.
. . . There are moments when the body is as numinous
as words, days that are the good flesh continuing.
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.”
Important newer work is also on offer in Here. Natalie Diaz, who has written some of the sexiest love poems and most haunting water poems of the century to date, is represented with the stunning lyric “How the Milky Way was Made”—which moves from the desecration of the Colorado River to the great river stars to the body of the beloved.
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