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Earth on Earth

Earth on Earth

Ramke, Bin

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1632430991
ISBN13: 9781632430991
Publisher: Omnidawn Pub
Published: Oct 21 2021
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Poems that personally engage with the materiality and danger of earth.

A kind of translation of the thousand-year-old poem Earth Took of Earth, this book is an attempt to restate in personal, emotional terms a sense of both the danger of and the consolation given by earth itself. Many of these poems arose during a collaboration with the ecologist-ceramicist Mia Mulvey: her work with earth, clay often extruded through digitally guided machinery, echoes Ramke's attempts to understand damages done to and celebrate the facts of earth--for instance, that geosmin, the scent of wet soil, is so powerfully recognizable even in trace amounts. The title of this book is also a play on the phrase heaven on earth, turning this idea around and encouraging us to instead turn our hopes toward earth on earth.

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