Earthwhere

By Lindsay Illich

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POETRY

98 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $16.95 (US $16.95) (CA $22.95)

Publication Date: June 2024

ISBN 9781625570758

Rights: WOR

Black Lawrence Press (Jun 2024)

Price:	$16.95

Overview

Earthwhere was written under the sign of disaster–a house fire, a global pandemic, the health crisis of a spouse, the stillbirth of my niece. In many of the poems, I address a "you," a regular feature of lyric poetry, partly because it powerfully conjures a singular other, the "to whom" of address, our most precious loved ones. It made writing the poems feel like receiving the gift of their attention, like they were with me. Also, it made the act of writing an act of preservation, for poems enact and elicit emotion, connection.

They're all love letters, really.

Reviews

Earthwhere is a chronicle of moving through and being moved by loss; it is the holy shape of absence. In other words, it is a prayer and eulogy, a blessing and a recognition of our transient time on earth. In Lindsay Illich’s universe of a book, we are all part and particle, wave and still, connected in the most fundamental way. Earthwhere is a portal, a transcendence. It will change you, or rather, it will guide you through the changes that you already are and were and will be. Loving and tender, attentive to everything, “But also your bright face./ In the light of it.” —Marcela Sulak, author of The Fault and City of Skypapers

Author Biography

Lindsay Illich is the author of Fingerspell (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Rile & Heave (Texas Review Press, 2017), and the chapbook Heteroglossia (Anchor & Plume, 2016). Rile & Heave won the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Prize in Poetry. She also co-authored Teach Living Poets (National Council of Teachers of English, 2021). She teaches at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts.

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