The Red List: A Poem by Stephen Cushman (2014) Paperback

by Stephen Cushman

The View from Saturn endeavors to look at the earth and our life on it from two perspectives at objectively, as if from a great distance, and subjectively, focusing in on the body with all its cells and hungers. Alice Friman's poems dance between these two vantage points, asking the important What does it all mean, and what have we become, standing in the midst of the destruction we've wrought by "watching the unthinkable going on"? With dark humor and lyric honesty, The View from Saturn provides both a telescopic and microscopic look at ourselves, exploring how in our smallness and perhaps foolishness we are still capable of attaining a measure of nobility.

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First published October 1, 2014

About the author

Stephen Cushman is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

[Serena · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF, no matter how many times I've gone back to this; I just get bored and distracted and put it down. I like the concept just not the execution