Darwin's Mother

In Darwin's Mother, curious beasts are excavated in archeological digs, Charles Darwin's daughter describes the challenges of breeding pigeons, and a forest of trees shift and sigh in their sleep. With a keen sense of irony that rejects an anthropocentric worldview and an imagination both philosophical and playful, the poems in this collection are marked by a tireless curiosity about the intricate workings of life, consciousness, and humanity's place in the universe.

Author: Sarah Rose Nordgren
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 11/17/2017
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822965169

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/01/2018

About the Author
Sarah Rose Nordgren is the author of Best Bones, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays appear widely in national journals such as AGNI, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and American Poetry Review, and she is the recipient of two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Nordgren is currently a doctoral candidate in poetry at the University of Cincinnati.