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Field Study
Winner of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize
Written in the tradition of American naturalists, FIELD STUDY chronicles a courtship and marriage through the vehicle of carnivore conservation efforts. The poems in Travis Mossotti’s second collection invite the reader to join in the observation of field work, and to glimpse the devotion required to sustain what is human and what is animal. In these pages, the ethics of nature and relationships are elegantly rendered, revealing who we are by what we see.
PRAISE FOR FIELD STUDY
"The poems in Field Study wind through different settings, characters, and species in an attempt to understand what makes us human. Whether in the field, a wildlife rescue center, or at home, staring at a reflection in the dishwater, Mossotti's poems balance the need for connection and necessary self-denial: 'Whenever I hold the sound / of those animals it opens like a dogwood blossom— / but then I squeeze too hard, and it dies." With narrative velocity and lyric grace, Field Study reveals a side of science rarely seen.
~Kerry James Evans, author of Bangalore
"Wolves need as many voices as they can get, and Travis Mossotti's Field Study is certainly a powerful and welcome addition."
~Douglas Smith, Project Leader for the Yellowstone Wolf Project
Written in the tradition of American naturalists, FIELD STUDY chronicles a courtship and marriage through the vehicle of carnivore conservation efforts. The poems in Travis Mossotti’s second collection invite the reader to join in the observation of field work, and to glimpse the devotion required to sustain what is human and what is animal. In these pages, the ethics of nature and relationships are elegantly rendered, revealing who we are by what we see.
PRAISE FOR FIELD STUDY
"The poems in Field Study wind through different settings, characters, and species in an attempt to understand what makes us human. Whether in the field, a wildlife rescue center, or at home, staring at a reflection in the dishwater, Mossotti's poems balance the need for connection and necessary self-denial: 'Whenever I hold the sound / of those animals it opens like a dogwood blossom— / but then I squeeze too hard, and it dies." With narrative velocity and lyric grace, Field Study reveals a side of science rarely seen.
~Kerry James Evans, author of Bangalore
"Wolves need as many voices as they can get, and Travis Mossotti's Field Study is certainly a powerful and welcome addition."
~Douglas Smith, Project Leader for the Yellowstone Wolf Project
96 pages, Paperback
First published October 8, 2014
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