Danger Days

By Catherine Pierce

POETRY

88 Pages, 5.5 x 7.5

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB

Trade Paper, $16.00 (US $16.00) (CA $22.00)

Publication Date: October 2020

ISBN 9781947817203

Rights: US & CA

Saturnalia Books (Oct 2020)

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Overview

A lyrical exploration of our planet's beauty and fragility in the face of environmental change.

Catherine Pierce's Danger Days is a collection of contemporary poems that celebrates our planet while bearing witness to its collapse. Pierce weaves together images of superblooms and Legos, gun violence and ghosts, glaciers and contaminant masks, urging us to look closely at both the horror and beauty of our world. These poems explore themes of motherhood, love, loss, and memory in the 21st century.

Danger Days is for readers who appreciate thoughtful, emotional, and reflective poetry that grapples with the complexities of the human condition and the challenges of our time. Discover a powerful voice that finds moments of wonder and connection amidst fear and anxiety.

Reviews

"Danger Days boldly confronts political and ecological collapse head-on—and shows us that poetry has the ability both to chronicle and battle back the apocalypse, with brilliantly rendered moments of beauty, wonder, love, and sly humor. Pierce takes on lockdown drills, spiders, violent storms, carcinogens, toxic algae blooms, tender-age shelters, retreating glaciers, horror movies, dangerous animals and even quicksand—and weaves them into luminous odes to humanity and domesticity in the Anthropocene, giving us a way to muddle through. 'Darling,' she writes, 'here is a sky polluted / with our city. Kiss me under it.'"—Erika Meitner

Author Biography

Catherine Pierce is the author of The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of Peculiar, and Famous Last Words. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. An NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize winner, she co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

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