Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry
An award-winning poet who “writes transporting poems of discovery, contemplation, and gratitude” (
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Pattiann Rogers has won acclaim as one of the most original voices in contemporary American poetry. The poems in her new collection,
Holy Heathen Rhapsody
, embrace and embody the forces of the Earth and the creative power of its lifeforms in all the wildness of their varieties. Love in these poems is a force infused with the same creative power and intensity, the purest manifestation of the will-to-be. This vision and its making contend that even a shadow or a floating seed, a frond of green or a midnight spider, even a mongrel dog, wind over water, the human voice, the human witness, peace and weapons, all—every aspect and feature encountered—are fully endowed players in the dynamic music of the Earth.