No More Time - Softcover

Greg Delanty (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807172359 ISBN 13: 9780807172353

Publisher: LSU Press, 2020

Synopsis

In No More Time, Greg Delanty offers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. The collection's long sequence, "A Field Guide to People," is an alpha-bestiary of twenty-six sonnets, each a meditation on a species of flora or fauna that is thriving, endangered, or extinct. Evoking an earthly heaven, purgatory, and hell for plants and animals, these poems function also as love letters to the biosphere as they connect the past with the present in both form and content. In the middle of this sonnet sequence, a section labeled "Breaking News" gives voice in poetry to the political state of our planet with a balance of pathos, wit, and hope.

Delanty stresses the deep underlying connections within and between the natural world and humankind, rather than the fragmented world stressed at the beginning of the twentieth century. No More Time witnesses the effects of climate change and presents a vital view of what remains at stake for engaged global citizens in the twenty-first century.

About this title

About the Author

Greg Delanty was born in Cork City, Ireland, and maintains dual citizenship in Ireland and the United States, where he has lived since 1986. He is the author of Book Seventeen and The Ship of Birth, among many other books, and he has received numerous awards for his poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Saint Michael's College in Vermont.

Edition details

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807172359
• ISBN 13: 9780807172353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200