The Mouths of Grazing Things

by Jennifer Boyden

The Mouths of Grazing Things is an unflinching, lyrical meditation on nature’s forced exodus from the human, and the forms of longing, estrangement, magnetism, and self-otherness that ensue. Arrestingly tender and fiercely protective of where nature lurks in and out of us still, Boyden translates for a new landscape where a brain in a jar is anchored by an apple, a fly-tying fisherman finds love songs to fish scattered among the barber’s sweepings, and the players at “the most dangerous playground in the world” prepare for anything with one fist clenched and the other full of sugar. In poems built to survive an unsafe journey, this book delivers the now-beyond, the almost-was, the near-forgotten, and the just-in-time.

Genres: Poetry

102 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Patricia Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though I am not apt to reading poetry, I would highly recommend this book! I 'get' it, or most of it, and that is exciting to me. This book makes me want to give other poems a chance. Oh, and it is written by my Niece, Jennifer. That's exciting too!!