From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass
along what the things of the earth are telling us
Over the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the
emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and
for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. In his new
collection, Wrigley means to use poetry to capture the primal
conversation between human beings and the perilously threatened planet
on which they love and live, proceeding from a line from Auden: "All we
are not stares back at what we are." In language that is both elegiac
and playful, declarative and yet ringingly musical; in traditional
sonnets, quatrains, and free verse, Wrigley transcribes the
consciousness and significance of every singing thing--in order to sing
back.