A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife by Wright, Erica

A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625572103)

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Format: Paperback
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A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife by Wright, Erica

A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife

$17.95
A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife by Wright, Erica

A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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Public pools shuttered for storms. Game shows for endangered species. The teeth of a fine snail. A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife began for poet Erica Wright as a response to archival images from the American Museum of Natural History. Imagine discovering so many new species in the 16th century, then losing so many in the 21st. The poems in Wright's new collection consider the beauty and fragility of ecosystems, some turning inward, to the animalness of the human body. Through pregnancy, loss, and parenthood, these poems respond to the feats of strength called upon by motherhood as well as the mental gymnastics required to start a family in the face of ecological disaster.

Despite these challenges, A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife is joyful, often defiantly so. Wright offers us ecopoems, but slant--as quick to banter with God as to praise rainforests.

Author: Erica Wright
ISBN-10: 1625572107
ISBN-13: 9781625572103
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2026
Pages: 92
Format: Paperback
By Erica Wright
By Erica Wright
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Erica Wright is the author of nine books, including the essay collection Snake and the poetry collection All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned. For more than a decade, she was the Poetry Editor at Guernica Magazine and currently teaches at Bellevue University. She holds degrees from New York University and Columbia University. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her family.

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