Forage (Penguin Poets)

Forage (Penguin Poets)

<b><b>A poet acclaimed for "uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else" (</b><b><i>The Rumpus</i></b><b>) now offers considerations of the natural world and humans' place within it in ecopoetry of both ambitious reach and elegant refinement</b></b><br><br>Rose McLarney has won attention as a poet of impressive insight, craft, and a "constantly questioning and enlarging vision" (Andrew Hudgins). In her third collection, <i>Forage</i>, she continues to weave together themes she loves: home, heritage, the South, animals, water, the environment. These intricately sequenced poems take up everything from animals' symbolic roles in art and as indicators of ecological change to how water can represent a large, troubled system or the exceptions of smaller, purer tributaries. At the confluence of these poems is a social commentary that goes beyond lamenting environmental degradation and disaster to record--and augment--the beauty of the world in which we live.