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Earthling: Poems

By James Longenbach
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By James Longenbach
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist


Earthling confronts our deepest fears in clear and haunting language, from "a poet of extraordinary gifts" (American Academy of Arts and Letters).

"Earthling" is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly, James Longenbach traces the life of a modern-day earthling as he looks squarely at his little patch of earth and at the vast emptin...

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PoetryAwardsAmerican PoetryOther American PoetryOther American Poetry2017 National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistsNational Book Critics Circle AwardsPrevious Finalists - National Book Critics Circle Awards