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Geode

Geode

Barba, Susan

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1574232355
ISBN13: 9781574232356
Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr
Published: Apr 7 2020
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A New England Book Award Finalist. Rich with shining interiors and tactile relationships, delicate human to delicate earth...Poems acting as guides, helping us navigate and remember...--New York Times Magazine

Susan Barba's collection of poems resembles the spheroid stone of its name; when cracked open, a glittering and fascinating crystalline structure is revealed but the stony sphere she offers us, and the beauty within, is nothing less than the earth.

The word geode also houses within it ode, a praise poem. With both anguish and exaltation, Barba considers our time within the larger scale of deep-time. The species decreasing in number and disappeared and the possibility of human extinction haunt this book, while new generations and the possibility of renunciation of our old ways animate it. There is wonder here as well. She writes...

Oak, whose girth

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