The Wild Delight of Wild Things

An outstanding book from start to finish. Don't let the title fool you: this is not the feel-good book such a title suggests. Much of the book is devastating in its exploration of the death of Turner's beloved from cancer and the impending death of the planet. But goodness, it is moving in the most......more

the poet Brian Turner pulled off a publishing hat trick this year, releasing three (THREE!) books over the course of a couple of months, each of them operating at the highest levels of craft--there's not a spare or misplaced word on any page of "The Wild Delight of Wild Things," The Dead Peasant's H......more

In these luminous, effusive poems, grief is a seismic entity. Its howl reverberates through oceans to the tops of high clouds and takes the amorphous shape of wind and fire and stars. It’s a current. After all, it’s been said that grief comes in waves. In this collection, however, grief can also cur......more

Brian Turner poses this question in the poem “The Jurassic Coast” in his book The Wild Delight of Wild Things: How do we mourn such loss? Turner is like a scout who goes ahead and reports back about the reckoning we’ll face when we inevitably lose a loved one. He pays close attention to the intercon......more

I love poetry and I love science, so this book speaks my language. It's an incredible meditation on how to define "loss" when someone you love isn't physically around anymore, with beautiful leaps into the ocean, forest, ant colonies, the Milky Way that all snap back beautifully to two people and th......more