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Red Ocher

Red Ocher

Poli, Jessica

Paperback

Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1682262294
ISBN13: 9781682262290
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: Mar 1 2023
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
In Jessica Poli's Red Ocher, the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss: a lamb runt dies in the night, a first-time lover inflicts casual cruelties, brussels sprouts rot in a field, love goes quietly and unbearably unrequited. This is an ecopoetics that explores the cyclical natures of love and grief, mindful that there will be room for desire / again, even after it leaves / like a flood receding, / the damaged farmhouses / and washed-away bridges / lying scattered the next day / amid silt and debris. Throughout, Poli's poems hold space for the sacred-finding it in woods overgrown with thorny weeds, in drunken joy rides down rural roads, and in the red ocher barns that haunt the author's physical and emotional landscapes.

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