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not human enough for the census
Paperback
Environmental StudiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $17.89
ISBN13: 9780578613819
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Published: Dec 3 2019
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Erik Fuhrer's not human enough for the census, there are creatures of dark habits, organ breathers, tree butchers, and 1 in 100 scientists agree the state of god is liquid. In these poems, aftermath requires a new language. Dust and ash compound with mother and father, mud compounds with blossom. These spare lyrics contain numerous transformations, and just because the body is gone/does not mean the absence of body is gone. Absences loom everywhere--the mouth, the breath, the treacherous god in the tempest.
-Traci Brimhall
In Erik Fuhrer's Not Human Enough for the Census, toxins inhabit the living like ghosts moving through generations, as silent and unseen as they are deadly; there's oil in blood, breastmilk, saliva and bodies with coal for eyes.... That is, the fluidity of his verse blurs the boundaries between bodies and their environment; it exposes hurricanes as climate ignorance, and shows how, here in the age of the Anthropocene, poetry can evoke a sense of the anti-nature we're ushering into being.
-Steve Tomasula
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