Dwelling: an ecopoem

by Scott Edward Anderson

A sequence of poems and prose questions, an ecopoem began as a conversation with Martin Heidegger’s essay “Building Dwelling Thinking” and became an expansive journey into the notion of home. With sharp focus, at once moving and lyric, Scott Edward Anderson explores the many facets of our dwelling on earth by drawing upon elements of nature, community, place, and love. Along the way, Anderson considers the impact of language, writing, displacement, and the city as ecosystem, ultimately concluding, “Home or the idea of home haunts us . . . we are always searching for it, for the way ‘back home.’ All we can do is try to make it, try to bring forth home as dwelling.”

94 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 17, 2018

About the author

Scott Edward Anderson is the author of AZOREAN SUITE/SUITE AÇORIANA (2020), FALLING UP: A Memoir of Second Chances (Homebound Publications, 2019), DWELLING: an ecopoem (Shanti Arts, 2018), FALLOW FIELD (Aldrich Press, 2013), and WALKS IN NATURE’S EMPIRE (Countryman Press, 1995). He has been a Concordia Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and received the Nebraska Review Award. His poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, The Wayfarer, and two anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in basalt, The Bloomsbury Review, Cleaver, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere. For many years, he has worked in conservation, social enterprise, and clean energy consulting with such organizations as The Nature Conservancy, Ashoka, VerdeStrategy, and EY. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Samantha, and their blended family.

Visit him at scottedwardanderson.com