The Glacier's Wake

By Katy Didden

Book Overview

In her debut poetry collection The Glacier's Wake , Katy Didden attends to the large-scale tectonics of the natural world as she considers the sources and aftershocks of mortality, longing, and loss. A number of the poems in the collection are monologues in recurring voices--specifically those of a glacier, a sycamore, and a wasp--offering an inventive, prismatic approach to Didden's ambitious subject matter. As poet Scott Cairns says, "Didden's is a capacious voice, able at once to deliver both wit and wonder, canny insight and meditative mystery." In The Glacier's Wake , the scientific, the elegiac, and the fantastical intertwine in the service of considering our human place--constructive and destructive, powerful and impermanent--amidst the massive shiftings that are occurring endlessly all around us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807152005
• ISBN13: 9780807152003
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Pleiades Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"