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Earthwork
The poetry of Earthwork is centered around, sprung from, and located in the landscape of mothering during the increasingly mapless territory of climate change and the pandemic. These are poems that take careful care of the small wonders of childhood and parenthood against such large and looming realities; poems that never stray away from wide-eyed honesty, taking in grief, joy, memory, and the strangeness of life, equally. Poems that stay put on the earth, show us with their small mappings a few ways of doing the necessary work. --------- "This is a quietly powerful collection, one that will become even more necessary as time goes on in our unimagined new world." -Shaindel Beers, author of Secure Your Own Mask, finalist for the Oregon Book Award
"The landscape of Earthwork is both refreshingly singular and common to us all. It's a place where hope finds purchase." -Alyssa Chase, writer and editor
Throughout this extraordinary collection, Berger's lyrical, meditative voice buoys readers through the wild wrack lines of our existence, making us ask, Dear world, where would I be without you? -Brittney Corrigan, author of Daughters and Breaking
"The landscape of Earthwork is both refreshingly singular and common to us all. It's a place where hope finds purchase." -Alyssa Chase, writer and editor
Throughout this extraordinary collection, Berger's lyrical, meditative voice buoys readers through the wild wrack lines of our existence, making us ask, Dear world, where would I be without you? -Brittney Corrigan, author of Daughters and Breaking
84 pages, Paperback
Published August 16, 2022
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August 12, 2023
If you are fond of nature poetry, this is the book for you!
Day 11 of #TheSealeyChallenge!
Nature runs throughout this book, even in poems that are about family, politics, or the pandemic. And the nature in this book, which the poet captures very well, is Oregon, particularly the Portland area.
Again, another poetry book with Sections! In this collection, the sections are titled and include epigraphs (including one by a dear friend, the poet Carolyn Moore).
Lots of favorite poems in this book: Passenger; Calling My Mother Up North, Waiting for the Vaccine; Breathwork; Centripetal Force; Release of the cabbage Looper Moth; The Theory I'm Conspiring to Share; January 6; My Brother Turns 46; Late-Stage Harvest; and Exit Strategy.
A few favorite bits:
"Driving down the Columbia Gorge in a thick rain-blur
of road-sky-river . . . "
--Steerage
"We will always miss a future
we will never know."
--Legend
"Before sleep, I count the years that rippled out"
--Felled
" . . . her children are a far-off assembly of notes."
--Recalling Home, in C Minor
"Cells arrange themselves like dusty galaxies"
--Mammography Calls You Back
Lots of different variations on free verse poems, and many different lengths of the poems. The cover art is also gorgeous! Definitely recommend! Everyone will relate to the Covid poems.
Day 11 of #TheSealeyChallenge!
Nature runs throughout this book, even in poems that are about family, politics, or the pandemic. And the nature in this book, which the poet captures very well, is Oregon, particularly the Portland area.
Again, another poetry book with Sections! In this collection, the sections are titled and include epigraphs (including one by a dear friend, the poet Carolyn Moore).
Lots of favorite poems in this book: Passenger; Calling My Mother Up North, Waiting for the Vaccine; Breathwork; Centripetal Force; Release of the cabbage Looper Moth; The Theory I'm Conspiring to Share; January 6; My Brother Turns 46; Late-Stage Harvest; and Exit Strategy.
A few favorite bits:
"Driving down the Columbia Gorge in a thick rain-blur
of road-sky-river . . . "
--Steerage
"We will always miss a future
we will never know."
--Legend
"Before sleep, I count the years that rippled out"
--Felled
" . . . her children are a far-off assembly of notes."
--Recalling Home, in C Minor
"Cells arrange themselves like dusty galaxies"
--Mammography Calls You Back
Lots of different variations on free verse poems, and many different lengths of the poems. The cover art is also gorgeous! Definitely recommend! Everyone will relate to the Covid poems.
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