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    Geode
    Geode
    Geode
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    Geode

    By Susan Barba

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    geode is rich with shining interiors and tactile relationships, delicate human to delicate earth, small delusions of ownership against wider backdrops of loss and time. Poems acting as guides, helping us navigate and remember, create an intricate overlay of worlds, humans and trees.
    —Naomi Shihab Nye, New York Times Magazine

    Susan Barba's new collection of poems resembles the spheroid stone of its name; when cracked open, a glittering and fascinating crystalline structure is revealed but the stony sphere she offers us, and the beauty within, is nothing less than the earth. With anguish and praise, in the spirit of both the ode and the elegy, Barba considers our time within the larger scale of deep-time. The species decreasing in number and disappeared and the possibility of human extinction haunt this book, while new generations and the possibility of renunciation of our old ways animate it. Here is the world, Barba reminds us, like a ball, in our hands.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Sparrow Press
    Release dateApr 7, 2020
    ISBN9781574232356
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    Susan Barba

    Susan Barba's first book Fair Sun (Godine, 2017) was awarded the Anahit Literary Prize and the Minas & Kohar Tölöyan Prize. She earned her PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University and is Senior Editor at New York Review Books.

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      Geode - Susan Barba

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      Susan Barba’s second book, geode, is rich with shining interiors and tactile relationships, delicate human to delicate earth, small delusions of ownership against wider backdrops of loss and time. Poems acting as guides, helping us navigate and remember, create an intricate overlay of worlds, humans and trees.

      Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times Magazine

      With gorgeous incantations, with music that is as memorable as it is piercing, Susan Barba has given us the green-book, the earth-book, the book of justice, that shows us how endlessly, mindlessly we are ticking away, all of us clocks.

      geode maps our planet’s blue-green grid, shows us the earth itself, and our crime against it: earth the story they’re breaking. Not a story exactly, perhaps, but a spell, a book of spells.

      From the language of maps, from the language of the courtroom, from the language of the river, we are given one human’s testimony. And music, when it comes, is transformative: Oak, whose girth /exceeds my reach //forever I am /at your feet, / looking up.

      Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

      Susan Barba’s geode is a rich, lyrical meditation on earth and its generative forces as well as its vulnerability to human desecration, violence, and ignorance. Her poems navigate places where natural history, human imagination and man-made endeavor meet. Barba’s voice is necessary in this tragic American moment where reactionary forces are at war with science, reason, and the planet.

      Peter Balakian, author of Ozone Journal

      Tense and bright as a winter star, Susan Barba’s geode re-orients the senses around the sort of spiritual refreshment I thought we had relegated to nostalgia. Now, we need poems that help us survive our trouble and teach us not to lie—Barba’s brilliant Letter to Gaia is one of these, confronting us with love

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