Earth on earth : poems /
A kind of translation of a thousand-year-old poem, "Earth took of Earth," this book is an attempt to restate in personal, emotional terms a sense of both danger and of consolation from earth itself. Many of these poems arose during a collaboration with the ecologist-ceramicist Mia Mulvey....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
Omnidawn Publishing,
[2021].
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| Summary: | A kind of translation of a thousand-year-old poem, "Earth took of Earth," this book is an attempt to restate in personal, emotional terms a sense of both danger and of consolation from earth itself. Many of these poems arose during a collaboration with the ecologist-ceramicist Mia Mulvey. Her work with earth, clay often extruded through digitally guided machinery, continually rhymes with Ramke's attempts to understand damages done, but also to celebrate the facts of earth-as, for instance, that geosmin, the scent of wet soil, is so recognizable even in trace amounts. The title of this book is a play on the phrase "heaven on earth": no, the very best-and it is a lot-to hope for is earth on earth. |
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| Physical Description: | 110 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781632430991 1632430991 |