Poems that personally engage with the materiality and danger of earth.
A kind of translation of the thousand-year-old poem ydquo;Earth Took of Earth,fdquo; this book is an attempt to restate in personal, emotional terms a sense of both the danger of and the consolation given by earth itself. Many of these poems arose during a collaboration with the ecologist-ceramicist Mia Mulvey: her work with earth, clay often extruded through digitally guided machinery, echoes Ramketsquo;s attempts to understand damages done to and celebrate the facts of earth dash;for instance, that geosmin, the scent of wet soil, is so powerfully recognizable even in trace amounts. The title of this book is also a play on the phrase tdquo;heaven on earth,hdquo; turning this idea around and encouraging us to instead turn our hopes toward earth on earth.
