After earth : poems / Michael Lavers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavers, Michael, 1983- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tampa, FL : The University of Tampa Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Part elegy, part ode, part pastoral, part sci-fi, After Earth looks back through history in order to consider history's end. Many of the poems are drawn from the concerns of a father for his children, from the impulse to record the Earth, to preserve what's slipping away, and to heal, if poems can, the bifurcation of nature and civilization. Reveling in the ornate as well as the plain, these poems cultivate astonishment not in the promise of another world, but in the here and now, turning "what is is wavering or tattered into permanence," and praising all they can, as Auden says we must, "for being and for happening.""-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lavers, Michael, 1983- After earth

ISBN:

9781597321723

9781597321716

1597321710

1597321729

OCLC:

1125283113

Publisher Number:

99984130480