The Only Home We Know
Robin Chapman
- 4/15/2019
- Tebot Bach
- 9781939678577
- 978-1-939678-57-7
- H15F
- PAPERBACK
- 104
- 0 lbs.5 oz.
- 38
$ 16.00
Poetry. "In language luminous and true, with grace, good humor,
generosity, and affectionate attention, Robin Chapman unflinchingly
faces the local and global, even galactic disasters, that daily assail
us. Casting a sober eye on the ills of our society, most of our own
making—climate change, environmental degradation, inequality, bigotry,
militarism—she refuses 'the beautiful poetry of grief' and instead
affirms 'what heals, what carries us, through.' This inimitable book is
ultimately a book of wonder and consolation, lovingly invoking the
connectivity of the natural world—the only home we know—to reveal a
wholeness at the heart of things. With, as she insists, 'the earth in
its journey turning us again / toward the light. The text of good will
arriving,' what can we do but embrace her joyful invitation to 'now,
love, put on your clown nose / and dance with me under the wandering
planets.'"—Ronald Wallace
"THE ONLY HOME WE KNOW is a book where memory functions as a spirit guide through the various details, wonders and terrors of our world. It is a book that takes a private hurt and makes it into a lyrical space where beauty is possible, is necessary. There is a tenderness and exuberance here that win me over, 'I'd mandate that every child at birth would be issued a drum,' the author says. Indeed. Bravo."—Ilya Kaminsky
"THE ONLY HOME WE KNOW is a book where memory functions as a spirit guide through the various details, wonders and terrors of our world. It is a book that takes a private hurt and makes it into a lyrical space where beauty is possible, is necessary. There is a tenderness and exuberance here that win me over, 'I'd mandate that every child at birth would be issued a drum,' the author says. Indeed. Bravo."—Ilya Kaminsky
