Not Just Us - Softcover

Berry, Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798899904561

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2026

Synopsis

The poems of Not Just Us reflect on the poet's encounters and relationships with non-human fellow animals―on her brief encounters and extended relationships with animals both domestic and wild. They seek to know better those "others [that] inhabit / this place we call ours," to imagine how those others see us, "how manifold the world would be // without us." Through daily life in a rural home, through travel, through craftspeople's renderings and scientists' studies, the poet meets badger, alpaca, eland, turkey vulture, pygmy owl, coral polyp, dog, and pig. These poems recognize humans as "animal[s] in haberdashery," acknowledge non-human animals as kin.

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About the Author

Eleanor Berry's most recent poetry collection, Works of Wildfire, won the 2022 Grayson Books Chapbook Award. Previous publications include Green November (Traprock Books, 2007), No Constant Hues (Turnstone Books of Oregon, 2015), and Only So Far (Main Street Rag, 2019). A past president of the Oregon Poetry Association and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Berry holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and taught literature and writing at colleges and universities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Over several decades, she has been active in organizing community literary and arts activities everywhere she has lived.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798899904561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44