Earth on Earth
Poems that personally engage with the materiality and danger of earth.
 
A kind of translation of the thousand-year-old poem “Earth Took of Earth,” 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 Ramke’s attempts to understand damages done to and celebrate the facts of earth—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 “heaven on earth,” turning this idea around and encouraging us to instead turn our hopes toward earth on earth.
 
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Earth on Earth
Poems that personally engage with the materiality and danger of earth.
 
A kind of translation of the thousand-year-old poem “Earth Took of Earth,” 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 Ramke’s attempts to understand damages done to and celebrate the facts of earth—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 “heaven on earth,” turning this idea around and encouraging us to instead turn our hopes toward earth on earth.
 
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Earth on Earth

Earth on Earth

by Bin Ramke
Earth on Earth

Earth on Earth

by Bin Ramke

Overview

Poems that personally engage with the materiality and danger of earth.
 
A kind of translation of the thousand-year-old poem “Earth Took of Earth,” 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 Ramke’s attempts to understand damages done to and celebrate the facts of earth—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 “heaven on earth,” turning this idea around and encouraging us to instead turn our hopes toward earth on earth.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781632430991
Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
Publication date: 10/21/2021
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Bin Ramke is the author of twelve books, most recently Light Wind Light Light and Missing the Moon. He was editor of the Denver Quarterly for twenty years and has taught at Columbus State University in Georgia, the University of Denver, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues to write, teach, and live in Denver.
 

Table of Contents

I

Midmourning 17

Toy Time 18

Camera Obscura (The Outside In) 20

Danses Sacrée et Profane (Debussy 1904) 22

The Past 24

Material Science 25

Black Painting, Black Dog 28

The Garden the Family 29

Varieties of Light 31

After "Owl's Clover" by Wallace Stevens 32

Spirit Level 33

Literate of Air 34

II

Fall 39

There Is No Consolation without Delight 40

A Flight of Days 42

They Are Like Grass 43

Yesterday When It Is Past 44

Secret Sins in the Light 45

Fear of Floating 46

"Tune a Brook by Moving the Stones in It" 48

"The Snow Is a Form of Light" 50

Nights of Sleep, Nights of Not Sleep 52

Phrase Book 53

Argument and Value, x and y 55

After Turner ("Sunrise with Sea Monsters") 56

Sentence Passed and Passing 57

Applied Astronomy 58

Insert Illustration Here 61

III

Flesh of the Word Game 65

Eye and Mind Game 66

"In Certain American Games in Which There Are To Be Partners" 67

Asbestos 68

In a Game Played by the Chaga 71

Body Parts 72

Avian Warning/Morning 73

Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem 74

Partial 76

A Change in Climate 78

Thingness. A Many-Body Problem 80

Lucretian Origami 83

IV

Beetles from Horses (after Wang Wei) 89

The Waiting and the Wisdom Wanting 92

Earth A: Three Meditations on Matter 93

Earth B: Where to Live 96

Garden Symmetries 100

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