![]() However, as she says, “this is not about regeneration, it is about ashes ” Exploring the rewilding of wasteland to thriving ecosystem on sites like Hiroshima and the DMZ between North and South Korea, she assembles the book as a language-landscape collage of texts about change-narratives, quotes from Dante, Rilke, John Hersey, and John Berger-and her poems.Ī careful arrangement of parts reveals an inner habitat for searching, a place to grow questions about the nature of our manmade, natural, and spiritual worlds. ![]() Although words cannot in themselves rewild land, in this collection Meredith Stricker’s lyric poems rewild our relationship to the documented human destruction she presents. The most transformative art and poetry can create conditions for something like photosynthesis to begin in consciousness, renewal by way of language and image in the face of devastation. ![]()
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