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- Title
- Near-Earth Object
- Author
- John Shoptaw
- Publisher
- Unbound Edition Press
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798989233311
In the poems of Near-Earth Object, John Shoptaw explores the interactions, sometimes dark and sometimes joyful, between humans and the non-human natural world. Resisting the human exceptionalism that in its many forms blocks our imaginative access to the world, Shoptaw entertains the perspectives of a host of others: a cricket, a bat, a nuthatch, a carnival bear, a tree's shade, cherubim, an asteroid, and -- in the long poem "Whoa!" (an allegory of climate change based on the myth of Phaethon) -- Earth herself. His descriptions bring to bear knowledge drawn from many sources (life and physical sciences, poetry, philosophy, conversations) as well as his own attentive experience of the world (birds at the feeder, creek-side fox squirrels, Pacific harbor seals). Along with these shifting viewpoints and scales, the poems assume various forms: anaphoric verse, poulter's measure, a seasonal "quartina," a shaped poem. Everywhere Shoptaw attends to the musical contours and momentums of his phrases, lines, sentences and stanzas.
Across the collection, Shoptaw takes up difficult and painful topics (global meltdown, animal abuse) without ever giving up either pleasure or hope. Throughout, he practices what he calls a poetics of impurity. Wary of absolutes (apocalyptic finality, unshakable optimism, utter despair), he makes the best of things in the messy world of the relative, the partial, the gradual, and the mixed.
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About the Author
John Shoptaw grew up in the drained Mississippi River floodplain of "Swampeast" Missouri. He was educated at Southeast Missouri State College, the University of Missouri at Columbia, and Harvard University. After some years teaching on the east coast, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently teaches in the UC Berkeley English Department. He is the author of On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry, the libretto for Eric Sawyer's opera Our American Cousin (Boston Modern Orchestra Project), and a number of essays on poetry and poetics, including "Why Ecopoetry?" (Poetry). His poems have appeared in varous venues, including Arion, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and Poetry. His first poetry collection, Times Beach (2015), won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in Poetry.
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