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The #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback!
"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection."
-Margaret Renkl, New York Times
"A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike."
-Los Angeles Times
Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.
In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing.
You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.
Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.
Contents
Foreword by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
Introduction by Ada Limón
Carrie Fountain, You Belong to the World
Donika Kelly, When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside
Joy Harjo, Eat
Kevin Young, Snapdragons
Eduardo C. Corral, To a Blossoming Saguaro
Diane Seuss, Nature Which Cannot Be Driven To
Victoria Chang, A Woman and a Bird
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, An Inn for the Coven
Khadijah Queen, Tower
José Olivarez, You Must Be Present
Dorianne Laux, Redwoods
b ferguson, Parkside & Ocean
Brandy Nālani McDougall, Dana Naone Hall, and No'u Revilla, Aia i hea ka wai o Lahaina?
Ashley M. Jones, Lullaby for the Grieving
Ilya Kaminski, Letters
Carl Phillips, We Love in the Only Ways We Can
Brenda Hillman, Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Laura Da', Bad Wolf
Molly McCully Brown, Rabbitbrush
Ellen Bass, Lighthouse
Traci Brimhall, Mouth of the Canyon
Jericho Brown, Aerial View
Michael Kleber-Diggs, Canine Superpowers
Monica Youn, Four Freedoms
Hanif Abdurraqib, There Are More Ways to Show Devotion
Cedar Sigo, Close Knit Flower Sack
Carolyn Forché, Nightshift in the Home for Convalescents
Analicia Sotelo, Quemado, TX
Cecily Parks, Hackberry
Danez Smith, Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery
Paul Guest, Walking the Land
Paisley Rekdal, Taking the Magnolia
Matthew Zapruder, It Was Summer, The Wind Blew
Prageeta Sharma, I am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace
Roger Reeves, Beneath the Perseids
Kazim Ali, The Man in 119
torrin a. greathouse, No Ethical Transition Under Late Capitalism
Rigoberto González, Summer Songs
Adam Clay, Darkling, I Listen
Camille Dungy, Remembering a Honeymoon Hike
Erika Meitner, Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform
Jake Skeets, In Fire
Paul Tran, Terroir
Jason Schneiderman, Staircase
Kiki Petrosino, To Think of Italy While Climbing
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Heliophilia
Jennifer L. Knox, Central Iowa, Scenic Overlook
Alberto Rios, Twenty Minutes in the Backyard
Patricia Smith, To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower
Ruth Awad, Reasons to Live
Notes
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