An Ecology of Elsewhere: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780892554737)

Following her mother's death, nearly twenty years after her time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana, Sandra Meek began traveling extensively through Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. During this same period, she and her sister also traveled the American Southwest with their declining father, confronting and healing from a difficult family history before his death. Whether describing a Namibian baby seal hunt, 1500-year-old Welwitschia plants living off of fog in a desert studded with landmines, or the sandstone "temples" of Zion National Park, Meek's poems attend to the endangered as well as the enduring, braiding personal narrative with those of the natural world from which they arise. At once nomadic and deeply rooted to place, An Ecology of Elsewhere interweaves a difficult past (personal and terrestrial) with an uncertain future.

Author: Sandra Meek
ISBN-10: 0892554738
ISBN-13: 9780892554737
Publisher: Persea Books
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2016 pg. 99