Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 181 g
Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 181 g
ISBN: 978-1-61186-196-9
Verlag: Michigan State University Press
In poems of praise and sorrow that draw upon the classical Chinese rivers-and-mountains tradition, Davis chronicles the creatures of forest and sky, of streams and lakes, moving through cycles of fecundity and lack, paying witness to the fundamental processes of the earth that offer the possibility of regeneration, even resurrection. Meditations on subjects from native brook trout to the ants that scramble up a compost pile; from a young diabetic girl burning trash in a barrel to a neighbour’s denial of global warming; from an examination of the bone structure in a rabbit’s skull to a depiction of a boy who can name every bird by its far-off song, these are poems that both celebrate and lament the perfectly imperfect world that sustains us.