Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology

by Melissa Tuckey (Editor), Camille T. Dungy (Foreword), Zein El-Amine (Contributor)

Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology edited by Melissa Tuckey is a groundbreaking collection of poetry that explores the links between culture, the environment, and social justice.

Genres: Poetry, Anthologies, Social Justice, Nonfiction, Nature

480 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2018

About the author

Melissa Tuckey is the author of Tenuous Chapel (ABZ Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 ABZ First Book Prize, and Rope as Witness, a chapbook published by Puddinghouse Press. She’s received a Fine Arts Work Center residency, among other awards, for her writing. Her poetry has been anthologized in DC Poets Against the War, Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, Poets for Palestine, Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of Writers Corps in Poetry and Prose, and Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology. Melissa is co-translator with Chun Ye and Fiona Sze-Lorrain of Chinese poet Yang Zi’s collected works, which have been published by Conjunctions, Manoa, Witness, and other journals. She serves as Poetry Editor at the online journal "Foreign Policy in Focus" (a think tank without walls). Melissa Tuckey teaches at Ithaca College. She has been with Split This Rock since its inception and served as a founding co-director before joining the Board of Directors.

Reviews

[Joe]

My review at terrain.org
https://www.terrain.org/2019/reviews-...

[June Powers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, is an amazing collection of globally sourced works
full of emotion, concern, often personal experience, and information about our current garden - our current world and how we need to tend to it in order for for it to grow. I loved the immense variety of subject matter and points of view. There were times the information being presented was so intense/upsetting, I had to put the book down for a bit to process what I'd just read. It is a treasured experience to read about the environment and injustices of humanity in poetic form. If you would like to meet someone whose parents lived through the Japanese encampment, then read this book. If you would like to meet someone concerned about fracking or how trash and light pollution effect the birds - then read this book. If you would like to help someone plant a tree at the same time they elegantly delicately, describe burying their father's ashes, then read this book - slowly and patiently.

[Camille Dungy]

This collection draws voices from all over the world who think carefully and broadly about what eco-justice looks like in action. Poems here look at farming, war, water, resource extraction, resistance, resilience, resurgence, and more. It is one of the most comprehensive and compelling environmental poetry anthologies available today. Poets in these pages include Dorianne Laux, Purvi Shah, Patrick Rosal, Sam Hamill, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Mahmoud Darwish, Jiang Tai, Tim Seibles, Homero Aridijis, Pippa Little, Tara Betts, Monika Sok, Linda Hogan, and Ross Gay. (University of Georgia Press)

Review published originally with Orion Magazine:https://orionmagazine.org/2021/08/ele...

[Amanda Jaros · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is so much to enjoy in this book, I savored it slowly. Each contributor in this wide variety of authors brings something powerful to the collection. I appreciate the work and care that went into this book and appreciate those creating art even in the darkness.

[Jordan Bowers · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is absolutely wonderful! I loved reading this book and I had the honor to meet Melissa Tuckey and some of the contributors in the book. They are all such wonderful people who are putting out a powerful message that we all need to hear right now.