jolee97's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
While I can't relate to all of their poems, the book is still really good. I love her writing style, it's easy to read and reads very quickly. I don't know if I would personally get more of her books (I had to read this for a class), but it's really good if you want to read some nature/family poetry.
freechasetoday's review against another edition
5.0
“Perhaps I could fabricate an image to represent this // agony, but the steward has walked into the galley / of history. There is nothing figurative about us.” To read any book of poems is to engage in a practice of conversation; within that conversation is, hopefully, a mix of sensory, emotional, and intellectual experience. For me to read this magnificent collection is to be called to confront the issues and subjects that challenge me most fiercely—the impact of humanity on our environment, the subjugation and disempowerment of many, the contradictions of how to consider my (and my world’s) history and legacy while also attending to the matters of my day-to-day life, all alongside the beauty and wonder of life in its myriad forms. That I chose it haphazardly from my stack this morning, after another attempted murder of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by the police in this country, makes its truths stand even more starkly and call me even more fervently to be in the world in a way that these poems are.
camilleberedjick's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
"Few things tie us together more than our need to dig up the right words to justify ourselves."
That's one of several lines in Camille T. Dungy's book of poetry, Trophic Cascade, that stopped me in my tracks. This short but powerful collection weaves together narratives of nature, motherhood, and racial injustice to ask big questions about what we're doing here and why we matter. I'm taking a class with the writer later this month and wanted to familiarize myself with her work beforehand, and I really loved it. Highly recommend.
That's one of several lines in Camille T. Dungy's book of poetry, Trophic Cascade, that stopped me in my tracks. This short but powerful collection weaves together narratives of nature, motherhood, and racial injustice to ask big questions about what we're doing here and why we matter. I'm taking a class with the writer later this month and wanted to familiarize myself with her work beforehand, and I really loved it. Highly recommend.