Canopy by Linda Gregerso
Linda Gregerson’s ugent new collection isa tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, “in a world where every breath I take is luck.”
From forced migration and ecological crisis to police brutality and COVID to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, these poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn stranger?
The magnificent poems in Canopy catalog and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.
Linda Gregerson’s ugent new collection isa tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, “in a world where every breath I take is luck.”
From forced migration and ecological crisis to police brutality and COVID to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, these poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn stranger?
The magnificent poems in Canopy catalog and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.
Linda Gregerson’s ugent new collection isa tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, “in a world where every breath I take is luck.”
From forced migration and ecological crisis to police brutality and COVID to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, these poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn stranger?
The magnificent poems in Canopy catalog and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.
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Genre: Poems
