Description: Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power
Review Quotes:
"Dungy asks how we can survive despair and finds her answers close to the earth."--Diana Whitney, Kenyon Review
"Trophic Cascade frequently bears witness-to violence, to loss, to environmental degradation-but for Dungy, witnessing entails hope."--Julie Swarstad Johnson, Harvard Review Online
"Beneath her matter-of-fact, easy-going, sit-yourself-down, let-me-tell-it-like-it-is chatifying. Her power we take deadly seriously."--Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews
"[Trophic Cascade] asks us, in spite of the pain or difficulty of being human today, to find joy and vibrancy in our experiences."--Elizabeth Flock, PBS Newshour
"[W]hat it means to be truly alive seeps into even the simplest of actions Dungy's poems depict a universe of clockwork precision whose logic can be too complex for mortal minds."--Publishers Weekly
"Dungy asks how we can survive despair and finds her answers close to the earth."--Diana Whitney, Kenyon Review
"[A] stunning exploration of motherhood, the natural world, nostalgia, and life as a Black woman in America, set within the complex history and landscape of a country where 'there is not a place I can wander inside you and not feel a little afraid'... Dungy offers vivid language and subtle yet powerful imagery."--Allison Escoto, Booklist