An unflinching look at the intimate, dwindling natural world and our desire for human connection. Noah Davis’s The Last Beast We Revel In coalesces around love for one’s romantic partner, family, community, and the natural world. As the Appalachian Mountains continue to suffer from environmental catastrophes and abuses, the need to discover joy within the human and greater-than-human world is essential. In these poems, we travel with black bears and brook trouts, exploring old tunnel mines, summer rivers, the remains of meth houses, and tasting the sweetness of August tomatoes. Davis’s poems balance revery, mourning, lust, and love while wading the rivers and meandering through the deep hollows of Appalachia’s enduring landscape.
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After felling every beetle-blighted ash on the ridgeHow Blood Becomes the RiverPlaces FamiliarThe September Side of LightPoem Found on Three Springs RunI Ask What We Are Heron HeartAppalachian Lust SongMountain Salve ConceptionTrout HeartPortrait of the Beloved with Rain What I Hear as Crow Song GenesisOn the last day of rifle seasonPenance Telling My Beloved What I Lost on the MountainArguing Again in the AfternoonHound HeartPoem Sewn into My Hunting JacketIn April with my belovedPrayer for the People Who Pulled the Mountaintops Back Like a FingernailWith My Beloved Upon Waking from a Nap in a Field a Week Before the First HayingJuly Drought Tick TriptychThe morning after my mother saw my beloved and me sleeping in the same bedMercy SongMarchMy Brother and I Watch Dogs Chase Trains Over the Pig Hole BridgeIn Bed with My Beloved and an Elk LegHuman HeartI like to believeWedding PoemPoem Sewn into my Briar PantsSolstice BluegillsHere, Long Before My Father’s DeathPink Lady SlipperMotherBee HeartMy Beloved AsksMarriage PoemFrom the valleyGod came to me on County Road 26Think of Lips and What Earth Needs for VegetablesMy brother fought Dream with My Beloved and Honeycomb Ending with a Line from YeatsMy father gives me a knifeThe Last Beast We Revel In
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781960327109
Publisert
2025-04-01
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Vendor
CavanKerry Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
88
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