A timely new collection that sounds themes about the fragility of life
and our duty to respect the planet in a time of climate change, from the
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work "begins in delight and ends in
wisdom" (Carrie Fountain)
The work of Carl Dennis has won praise for its "integrity, its
substance, and its seemingly effortless craft; and for its embodiment of
passionate inquiry" (Times Literary Supplement). The title of his new
collection, Earthborn, helps to point the way to its two central
concerns: how to find meaning, as creatures of the earth, in lives that
are short and frail and destined to be forgotten; and how, as stewards
of the earth, to address the need to protect our home from ourselves,
from the menace to life posed by our own species. The book succeeds in
braiding together a recognition of our limits and of our
responsibilities in ways that are deeply moving and revealing.