Forage
Paperback – Illustrated, September 3, 2019
Penguin Publishing Group · Paperback · September 3, 2019
Winner of Weatherford Award for Best Poetry Book about Appalachia A poet acclaimed for "uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else" (The Rumpus) now offers considerations of the natural world and humans' place within it in ecopoetry of both ambitious reach and elegant refinement Rose McLarney has won attention as a poet of impressive insight, craft, and a "constantly questioning and enlarging vision" (Andrew Hudgins).
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in ecopoetry and humanity’s place in the natural world
- Themes
- Humanity and the natural world, Home and heritage, Environmental change and beauty
- Genres
- Nature Poetry, American Poetry, Ecology
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Winner of Weatherford Award for Best Poetry Book about Appalachia A poet acclaimed for "uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else" (The Rumpus) now offers considerations of the natural world and humans' place within it in ecopoetry of both ambitious reach and elegant refinement Rose McLarney has won attention as a poet of impressive insight, craft, and a "constantly questioning and enlarging vision" (Andrew Hudgins).
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In her third collection, Forage, she continues to weave together themes she loves: home, heritage, the South, animals, water, the environment. These intricately sequenced poems take up everything from animals' symbolic roles in art and as indicators of ecological change to how water can represent a large, troubled system or the exceptions of smaller, purer tributaries. At the confluence of these poems is a social commentary that goes beyond lamenting environmental degradation and disaster to record--and augment--the beauty of the world in which we live.
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in ecopoetry and humanity’s place in the natural world
- Readers drawn to poetry about home, heritage, and environmental change
Where it sits
| Nature Poetry | 93% |
|---|---|
| Ecology | 42% |
| American Poetry | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- Nature Poetry
- Women Poets
- Authors
- Rose McLarney
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- September 3, 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Humanity and the natural world · Home and heritage · Environmental change and beauty
- Reading lane
- American Poetry