pickPer the usual, I'm hampered from a completely fair judgement of any work of poetry by my varying levels of reading comprehension. A collection including many poets means even more variance in my ability to understand, to feel that I fully received the message the poet meant to capture, or that I found something for myself within the poem.
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Traci Brimhall another candidate in this collection, love her way with words enough to look up her other poetry.
Gorgeous use of words, might have to look up more Dorianne Laux after this collection.
“...poems are like trees in this way...poems can be a place to stop and remember that we too are living.“ 🌳💚 💌
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
pickI discovered this book of poetry in a bookstore in Chatham, Cape Cod when I was there in April. Edited by the twenty-sixth Poet Laureate of the U.S., Ada Limon,each poem engages the reader with the individual poet‘s local landscape.There are fifty diverse voices.The book features a wide range of fauna,vegetation,insects & animals, as well as human responses to the environment.#14weeks14books #week3
#HyggeHourReadathon
Some poetry, some forensic anthropology mystery, some cinnamon milk & almond thins. Relaxing into Monday. Sleep well my friends. 😴
#weeklyforecast
Top row: the charming #sundaybuddyread , #nonfiction #hummingbirds #poetry
Bottom row: #DCIBanks #audiobokk #historicalfiction #shelfsweeper #4Elizabeth #historicalfiction
Lunch & book shopping with my 3 sisters today- so much laughter & book talk!
#NationalPoetryMonth #vacation
so-soSome poets took the title literally with trees, a cactus, parks, the ocean and other natural places central to their prose. Other contributors described their internal “here.” It was less engaging than I had hoped. Some favorites: When the fact of your gaze…, Aia I Hea Ka…, Unendangered Moths, Remembering a honeymoon and To think of Italy… Only 3 ⭐️ for this collection.
pickAnthology. Not so much nature in these nature poems, but maybe that‘s the point. Faves: Patricia Smith‘s “To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower,” Hanif Abdurraqib‘s “There Are More Ways to Show Devotion” spider rebuilding, Jericho Brown‘s “Aerial View” giraffe. 2024
P 20 Diane Seuss
There is something in suburban rabbits /
that has evolved toward wickedness
P29 José Olivarez
i say to myself when the what wheres all up in the how now – trees!
pickA nearly perfect collection.
I was unfamiliar with most of the poets in this collection, and it‘s almost overwhelming how good their work is here. After reading it once I‘ve been going through it again to mark some of my favorites and I find that I‘m marking almost every one of them! 😅
Truly, the only thing that could improve this would be a poem from Mrs. Limon herself.
April is National Poetry Month and 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limon, has gifted us with this beautiful collection!
It‘s a gorgeous book with gorgeous writing and I‘m totally in love!
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World | 
From human experiences and admiration of nature to more brutal mourning and activist views of threatened nature, I think most people will find a few in this collection that speak 6d
Personal Favourites:
Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To
A Woman with a Bird
An In for the Coven
Redwoods
Parkside & Ocean
Lullaby for the Grieving(at the Sipsey River)
Rabbitbrush
Hackberry
Manifesto of Fragility/Terraform
Twenty Minutes in the Backyard
Reasons to Live 6d