Earth Again
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Comprised of three sections-each of which concludes with a long poem-Earth Again presents a range of narrative and emotions in dexterous rhythms, unexpected shifts, and unforgettable metaphors. Dombrowksi introduces readers to arresting images like "the parataxis of her ass," "cerulean, alchemical light," "Molly with the sun in her mouth," and "labyrinthine, lanky-stemmed, dew-magnified" leaves. These details combine with Dombrowski's note-perfect language, which alternates between the most colloquial and the most elevated of diction. Readers will be challenged to consider spirituality alongside Scooby-Doo Band-aids, and to meditate on death after the mower has chewed up a plastic dinosaur, as Dombrowski revels in exploring our connection to the environment and one another.
Fans of Dombrowski's previous collection, By Cold Water (which was noted as a contemporary poetry bestseller by the Poetry Foundation in 2009), along with other poets and poetry lovers will appreciate the attention to detail and the imaginative intensity of the poems in Earth Again.
Chris Dombrowski
Chris Dombrowski is the author of By Cold Water (Wayne State University Press, 2009), a finalist for Foreword Magazine's Poetry Book of the Year, and two chapbooks, Fragments with Dusk in Them and September Miniatures with Blood and Mars. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Making Poems, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry. He currently teaches at Interlochen Center for the Arts, and, with his family, divides his time between Michigan and Montana.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was a completely random impulse buy at the Ann Arbor book festival, so I was pleasantly surprised to love this book as much as I did. The effect was cumulative, and I found myself liking it more and more with each poem that I read. The title of this book is perfect, as it is concerned with earth, and the earthiness of our bodies, which come from earth and will be earth again.
Some favorite lines--
...Day-thawed, the snow on black branches seizes up,
ensheathing the bare trees turned grand chandeliers dimmed low
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I can only wish him
more earth, in the bluntest of terms: another stolen swig of whiskey
brief as a July snow, another hard tumble on his board, another
fuck, another hummingbird.
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snowsuits steaming up the window whose frame
bled groggy ladybugs, droplets from unseen veins
Largely the poems that moved me most were poems about parenting, some of the best writing I've seen on the subject, certainly the best poetry.
Wonderful.