Earthrise

Flowers have replaced gods, but the self-in-the-world is still clear and epic if haunted by memory. Formally rigorous and intellectually capacious, these poems of objects, lives, and places aren't like heroes that "know themselves too late." These poems know themselves quite well, which is why they are so bracing and so rewarding.

.-Christopher Cokinos, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona

In Earthrise Deborah Fleming's geographically wide-ranging poems cohabit with intensely ...