All One Breath
By John Burnside.
Description
In this absorbing, exciting new collection—his first since Black Cat Bone—John Burnside examines our shared experience of this mortal world: how we are "all one breath" and—with that breath—how we must strive towards the harmony of choir. Recognizing that our attitudes to other creatures—human and non-human—cause too much damage and hurt, that "we’ve been going at this for years: / a steady delete / of anything that tells us what we are," these poems celebrate the fleeting, charged moments where, through measured and gracious enc...
ISBN(s)
0224097407, 9780224097406
