Description:
A lyrical exploration of our planet's beauty and fragility in the face of environmental change.
Catherine Pierce's Danger Days is a collection of contemporary poems that celebrates our planet while bearing witness to its collapse. Pierce weaves together images of superblooms and Legos, gun violence and ghosts, glaciers and contaminant masks, urging us to look closely at both the horror and beauty of our world. These poems explore themes of motherhood, love, loss, and memory in the 21st century.
Danger Days is for readers who appreciate thoughtful, emotional, and reflective poetry that grapples with the complexities of the human condition and the challenges of our time. Discover a powerful voice that finds moments of wonder and connection amidst fear and anxiety.
Brief description: Catherine Pierce is the author of four books of poems: DANGER DAYS (Saturnalia Books, 2020), THE TORNADO IS THE WORLD (Saturnalia Books, 2016), THE GIRLS OF PECULIAR (Saturnalia Books, 2012), and FAMOUS LAST WORDS (Saturnalia Books, 2008), winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Both THE TORNADO IS THE WORLD and THE GIRLS OF PECULIAR won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize. A chapbook, Animals of Habit (Kent State University Press), was published in 2004.
Review Quotes: "Danger Days boldly confronts political and ecological collapse head-on--and shows us that poetry has the ability both to chronicle and battle back the apocalypse, with brilliantly rendered moments of beauty, wonder, love, and sly humor. Pierce takes on lockdown drills, spiders, violent storms, carcinogens, toxic algae blooms, tender-age shelters, retreating glaciers, horror movies, dangerous animals and even quicksand--and weaves them into luminous odes to humanity and domesticity in the Anthropocene, giving us a way to muddle through. 'Darling, ' she writes, 'here is a sky polluted / with our city. Kiss me under it.'"--Erika Meitner