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Oceanic

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note — a sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, inviting in the grief of an elephant, the icy eyes of a scallop, “the ribs / of a silver silo,” and the bright flash of painted fingernails. With unmatched sincerity, Oceanic speaks to each reader as a cooperative part of the natural world — the extraordinary neighborhood to which we all belong. This is a poet ecstatically, emphatically, naming what it means to love a world in peril.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 80
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781556595264
  • Genres
  • poetry, nature, womens, contemporary, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2018