The New York Times has said that "Jorie Graham's poetry is among the
most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have," and this new
collection is a reminder of how startling, original, and deeply relevant
her poetry is. In Sea Change, Graham brings us to the
once-unimaginable threshold at which civilization as we know it becomes
unsustainable. How might the human spirit persist, caught between its
abiding love of beauty, its acknowledgment of continuing injury and
damage done, and the realization that the existence of a "future" itself
may no longer be assured?
There is no better writer to confront such crucial matters than Jorie
Graham. In addition to her recognized achievements as a poet of
philosophical, aesthetic, and moral concerns, Graham has also been
acknowledged as "our most formidable nature poet" (Publishers Weekly).
As gorgeous and formally inventive as anything she has written, Sea
Change is an essential work speaking out for our planet and the world
we have known.