Poetry Anthology – Subjects and Themes – Animals & Nature – Places

RELEASE DATE: 4/2/2024 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

Published associationwith the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.

For many years, nature poetry has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, this book challenges what we think we know about nature poetry, illuminating the myriad ways our landscapesboth literal and literaryare changing.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nations most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto Gonzlez, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more

.Each poem engages with its authors local landscapebe it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stopoffering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.

Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what nature and poetry are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

CONTRIBUTOR BIO:

Ada Limn is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author ofThe Hurting Kindand five other collections of poems. These include, most recently,The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, andBright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limn is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in theNew Yorker, theNew York Times, andAmerican Poetry Review, among others. Born and raised in California, she now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

“Lush with lyricism and striking imagery, these poems by Jericho Brown, Diane Seuss, and others contemplate seascapes, backyards, national borders, and built environments where life sings beneath the surface.”–Poets & Writers

“The expansiveYou Are Heresurveys both the landscape of the natural world and the landscape of contemporary poetry. Pastoral witness neighbors environmental concern; established talents neighbor emerging voices; lakes and forests neighbor pools and cemeteries. Dear gardeners, bookworms, lumberjacks, cartographers, bird-watchers, scholars, students, poets, and general readers:You Are Herewill leave you more attuned to the textures of countryside and country. Language and land become a capacious singularity in Ada Limn’s superb compilation.”–Terrance Hayes, author ofAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

“The poets in this collection share the richness of their breathing. Rich with noticing, rich with longing, rich with grace, their breath–preserved in poems–become our breathing. The gift here is the true scale of our breath, an interspecies, planetary scale. The scale of gratitude. I am so glad you are here.”–Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author ofUndrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals