Earth-Cool, and Dirty
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Jacob Lee Bachinger
Jacob Lee Bachinger lives and works in southern Alberta on the edge of coulees and the Oldman River. He teaches at the University of Lethbridge and has had his poems published in The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Riddle Fence, and The Malahat Review among others. He is currently working on a book about his time in Labrador. Jacob lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.
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Earth-Cool, and Dirty - Jacob Lee Bachinger
In this promising first collection, Bachinger gives us direct poems with a sense of the moment and the ordinary, that see the landmarks of our lives without embellishment. The wilderness here is surprisingly close, it’s the nature of every day as we, like some of these creatures, find ourselves gambling with oblivion
. I found myself re-reading some favourites for both the pleasure and the thought.
Bruce Rice
The Vivian Poems: Street Photographer Vivian Maier
Coming to us at a time when the words climate emergency
seem to be everywhere and we’re seeing the emergency up close and firsthand, these gorgeously precise, contemplative poems offer not a balm, nor an escape, but a much-needed awakening. Bachinger’s intense engagements with Thoreau and Heraclitus are personal and expansive; his Su Tung-p’o poems are exquisite. Sonically alive, metaphorically fresh and wonderfully tight, the poems in Earth-cool, and Dirty take us deep into place, relationships, and the nature of desire. I will be thinking about this book for a long time.
Brenda Schmidt
Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road
Jacob L. Bachinger’s poems are full of careful observation of the natural world, of people. There are elegies for disappeared grosbeaks, a discarded plastic bag, and the weeds that take over the yard of an abandoned house. But there is also music and reverence and belonging. Like the poet-governor in his eponymous poem, Bachinger’s words lead ever homeward.
Monica Kidd
Chance Encounters with Wild Animals
True poems, as Jacob Bachinger says in his homage to imagist William Carlos Williams,
release the heart." And having read and re-read this excellent book, my heart is transported. Bachinger is, himself, an accomplished imagist, an acute observer, and one is sharply aware of that from the rich blast of sensory detail in the book’s title piece. Earth-cool, and Dirty brings alive the simple