A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from "a
contemporary master"*--a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last,
tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *Los Angeles Review of
Books
Linda Gregerson's long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a
compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and,
ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within
the larger ecosystem, "in a world where every breath I take is luck."
From the Syrian refugee and ecological crises, to police brutality and
COVID, to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, the poems ask:
How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to
the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved
one, and how do we mourn strangers?
The magnificent poems in Canopy catalogue and reckon with humanity and
the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.