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    612-822-4611

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The Seeds

The Seeds

Parks, Cecily

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1949944891
ISBN13: 9781949944891
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

The Seeds confronts the ecological paradox of homemaking in an environment domesticity rejects--one of mess, disease, and everyday violence--to explore the equal distress and delight entangled in caring for a family, a new home, and the earth that sustains them.


Cecily Parks draws on literary sources ranging from nursery rhymes to The Odyssey to examine how we form relationships with the natural world. The lessons of these poems are in processes that underscore humanity's power to alter nature and powerlessness to control it: an epiphyte's fall from a live oak, an urban creek's response to drought, or a roof rat's nest-building in the attic of the poet's home. Motherhood positions the speaker to revisit her girlhood relation to the earth, and as her two young daughters exemplify the ease with which children can become nature's intimates, the speaker must confront the ecological disturbances that arise from her own attempts to prevent upset to the garden through aggression by weeds, animals, and weather.

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