Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way

by Linda Russo

Overview

The poems in Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way arise amidst those remnants, historical and everyday, that redefine what we know to be underfoot in the places we live. From the Rose Creek Preserve to Koppel Farm Community Garden to a backyard on Pioneer Hill - and in many spaces in between - these poems suggest that, as ecologically-attuned 21st century inhabitants, we need to not only understand the complex of relationships - as scientists help us do - but also to listen deeply for meanings at every level with a various awareness of what lives and thrives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848613935
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	03/27/2015
Pages:	78
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

Linda Russo (Inhabit ory Poetics) is the author of three books of poetry, including The Enhanced Immediacy of the Everyday and Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way (both 2015); a collection of lyric essays, To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light, selected by John D'Agata as the winner of Subito Press inaugural creative nonfiction prize, is forthcoming (2015). Scholarly essays have appeared in Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (University of Iowa Press) and other edited collections, and as the preface of Joanne Kyger's ABOUT NOW: COLLECTED POEMS (National Poetry Foundation, 2007). She lives in the Columbia River Watershed (eastern Washington State, U.S.A.) and teaches at Washington State University.