Trophic Cascade [Paperback]

Winner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry (2018)

In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of power, a world in which we all must survive, these poems resonate within and beyond the scope of the human realms, delicately balancing between conflicting loci of attention. Dwelling between vibrancy and its opposite, Dungy writes in a single poem about a mother, a daughter, Smokin’ Joe Frazier, brittle stars, giant boulders, and a dead blue whale. These poems are written in the face of despair to hold an impossible love and a commitment to hope. A readers companion will be availabe at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions. Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and powerNatural History
Before the fetus proves viable, a stroll creekside in the High Sierra
“still in a state of uncreation”
Ars Poetica: Mercator Projection
Ultrasound
Ars Poetica: Cove Song
Nullipara
Ars Poetica: Field Trip
Trophic Cascade
After Birth
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Ars Poetica after William Carlos Williams
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Ars Poetica Apocalyptica
Glacial Erratics
Conspiracy
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Ars Poetica: After the Dam
Mother daughter hour
Notes on what is always with us
There are these moments of permission
Because it looked hotter that way
Poor Translation
From the First, the Body Was Dirt
Still life
Characteristics of Life
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Bîtan
One to Watch, and One to Pray
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Brevity
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soldier’s girl
What I know I cannot say
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