The Next World - Softcover

Gholson, Christien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1962082431 ISBN 13: 9781962082433

Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC, 2025

Synopsis

The Next World explores the grief, anger, horror and illumination found on the border between the world as it is now and the one it is evolving into in the wake of climate change catastrophes. These poems wrestle with the difficulty of acknowledging a myriad of endings: species, places, but also the fundamental seasonal and environmental cycles that humans have always known. Simultaneously they explore what regeneration, hope, and "the future" might mean for us now. These poems allow for confusion, for questions, finding the beauty within the terror and revealing the terror inside the beauty.

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About the Author

Christien Gholson is the author of several books of poetry, including Absence: Presence (Shanti Arts Publishing) and All the Beautiful Dead Along the Side of the Road (Bitter Oleander Press); along with a novel: A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (Parthian Books). Several chapbooks can be found online, including Tidal Flats (Mudlark). He attended Naropa University; University of California, Davis; and Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Banyan Review, Ecotone, Flyway, Hotel Amerika, Mudlark, Permafrost, The Shore, The Sun, and Tiger Moth Review, among many other literary journals, and is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. He works as a somatic-oriented mental health counselor at a clinic collective. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he is engaged in an endless dialogue about birth and death with a local murder of crows. christiengholson.blogspot.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1962082431
• ISBN 13: 9781962082433
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96