The Land of Stone and River Poems |
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| Author:
| Putnam, Claudia |
| ISBN: | 978-0-913785-63-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2022 |
| Publisher: | Department of English
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| Imprint: | Moon City Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the 2020 Moon City Poetry Award
The Land of Stone and River explores the wonder and terror of being human in a world both at its apex (in this period of between the earth's various traceable ends, anyway) and tipping at the brink of another major extinction event. People are small beings in a vast, ungraspable landscape of geography, time, and disaster--at the mercy of wind, tangled in history, caught in illness that can seem as inexorable as weather,...
More DescriptionWinner of the 2020 Moon City Poetry Award
The Land of Stone and River explores the wonder and terror of being human in a world both at its apex (in this period of between the earth's various traceable ends, anyway) and tipping at the brink of another major extinction event. People are small beings in a vast, ungraspable landscape of geography, time, and disaster--at the mercy of wind, tangled in history, caught in illness that can seem as inexorable as weather, tide, or geology. We persist. And the world with us.