Canopy, Linda Gregerson
Canopy, Linda Gregerson
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Canopy
Poems

Author: Linda Gregerson

Narrator: Linda Gregerson

Unabridged: 1 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 03/22/2022

Categories: Fiction, Poetry


Synopsis

A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from “a contemporary master”*—a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *Los Angeles Review of Books

Linda Gregerson’s long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, “in a world where every breath I take is luck.”

From the Syrian refugee and ecological crises, to police brutality and COVID, to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, the poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn strangers?

The magnificent poems in Canopy catalogue and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.

About Linda Gregerson

Linda Gregerson is the author of six previous collections of poetry, most recently of Prodigal: New and Selected Poems. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Helen Zell Writers’ Program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kayla

There’s so much in this collection. So much raw emotion. So many deep and terrible subjects. So many things that are felt through the author’s words. I took my time reading this collection. I gave each poem time to settle before moving to the next. I let the words fill the air rather than just the sp......more

A sobering collection of poetry with a focus on loss, downfall, and mourning. Ms Gregerson paints her world with shades and smells, sounds and palpable emotions. A beautiful, haunting anthology. I plan to recommend this book to our school's English department.......more