Description
Finalist, 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Book Information
ISBN 9781682262030
Author Michael Mlekoday
Format Paperback
Page Count 116
Imprint University of Arkansas Press
Publisher University of Arkansas Press
Weight(grams) 99g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm
From cities and cross-country bus rides to swamps and fern forests, Michael Mlekoday's All Earthly Bodies celebrates the ungentrifiable, ungovernable wildness of life. This is anarchist ecology, nonbinary environmentalism, an earthbound theology against empire in all its forms. These poems ask how our lives and language, our prayers and politics, might evolve if we really listened to the world and its more-than-human songs.
"Sometimes I wish I could / peel myself from myself / without discarding the shell," Mlekoday writes. Through a kind of lyric dreamwork, Mlekoday sounds the depths-of ancestry and identity, race and gender, earth and self-to track the unbecoming and re-membering of the body.
Book Information
ISBN 9781682262030
Author Michael Mlekoday
Format Paperback
Page Count 116
Imprint University of Arkansas Press
Publisher University of Arkansas Press
Weight(grams) 99g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm
