Earth on Earth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781632430991)

Poems that personally engage with the materiality and danger of earth.

A kind of translation of the thousand-year-old poem "Earth Took of Earth," this book is an attempt to restate in personal, emotional terms a sense of both the danger of and the consolation given by earth itself. Many of these poems arose during a collaboration with the ecologist-ceramicist Mia Mulvey: her work with earth, clay often extruded through digitally guided machinery, echoes Ramke's attempts to understand damages done to and celebrate the facts of earth--for instance, that geosmin, the scent of wet soil, is so powerfully recognizable even in trace amounts. The title of this book is also a play on the phrase "heaven on earth," turning this idea around and encouraging us to instead turn our hopes toward earth on earth.


Author: Bin Ramke
ISBN-10: 1632430991
ISBN-13: 9781632430991
Publisher: Omnidawn
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2021
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.32d