You are here : poetry in the natural world / edited and introduced by Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Limón, Ada, editor.

Hayden, Carla Diane, 1952- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Genre:

Poetry.

Ecopoetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, in association with the Library of Congress, 2024.

Summary:

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers. In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about “nature poetry,” illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing.You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what “nature” and “poetry” are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

Contents:

Foreword / Carla Hayden

Introduction / Ada Límón

You belong to the world / Carrie Fountain

When the fact of your gaze means nothing, then you are truly alongside / Donika Kelly

Eat / Joy Harjo

Snapdragon / Kevin Young

To a blossoming Saguaro / Eduardo C. Corral

Nature, which cannot be driven to / Diane Seuss

A woman with a bird / Victoria Chang

An inn for the coven / Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Tower / Khadijah Queen

You must be present / José Olivarez

Redwoods / Dorainne Laux

Parkside & Ocean / B Ferguson

Aia i hea ka wai o Lahaina? / Brandy Nālani McDougall, Dana Naone Hall, No'u Revilla,

Lullaby for the grieving / Ashley M. Jones

Letters / Ilya Kaminsky

We love in the only ways we can / Carl Phillips

Unendangered moths of the mid-twentieth century / Brenda Hillman

Bad wolf / Laura Da'

Rabbitbrush / Molly McCully Brown

Lighthouse / Ellen Bass

Mouth of the canyon / Traci Brimhall

Aerial view / Jericho Brown

Canine superpowers / Michael Kleber-Diggs

Four Freedoms Park / Monica Youn

There are more ways to show devotion / Hanif Abdurraqib

Close-knit flower sack / Cedar Sigo

Night shift in the home for convalescents / Carolyn Forché

Quemado, Texas / Analicia Sotelo

Hackberry / Cecily Parks

Two deer in a Southside cemetery / Danez Smith

Walking the land / Paul Guest

Taking the magnolia / Paisley Rekdal

It was summer. The wind blew / Matthew Zapruder

I am learning to find the horizons of peace / Prageeta Sharma

Beneath the Perseids / Roger Reeves

The man in 119 / Kazim Ali

No ethical transition under late capitalism / Torrin A. Greathouse

Summer songs / Rigoberto González

Darkling I listen / Adam Clay

Remembering a honeymoon hike near Drakes Bay, California, while I cook dinner at the feet of Colorado's Front Range / Camille T. Dungy

Manifesto of fragility / Terraform / Erika Meitner

If fire / Jake Skeets

Terroir / Paul Tran

Staircase / Jason Schneiderman

To think of Italy while climbing the Saunders-Monticello Trail / Kiki Petrosino

Heliophilia / Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Central Iowa, Scenic Overlook / Jennifer L. Knox

Twenty minutes in the backyard / Alberto Ríos

To little Black girls, risking flower / Patricia Smith

Reasons to live / Ruth Awad.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781571317926

1571317929

OCLC:

1408969376