You Are Here

You Are Here
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Country
United States
Published
1 August 2024
Pages
176
ISBN
9781571315687

You Are Here

'Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection.' - Margaret Renkl,New York Times

'A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike.' - Los Angeles Times

Published in associationwith 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.

For many years, 'nature poetry' has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, 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 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.

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