Description
Poetry. "In language luminous and true, with grace, good humor, generosity, and affectionate attention, Robin Chapman unflinchingly faces the local and global, even galactic disasters, that daily assail us. Casting a sober eye on the ills of our society, most of our own making—climate change, environmental degradation, inequality, bigotry, militarism—she refuses 'the beautiful poetry of grief' and instead affirms 'what heals, what carries us, through.' This inimitable book is ultimately a book of wonder and consolation, lovingly invoking the connectivity of the natural world—the only home we know—to reveal a wholeness at the heart of things. With, as she insists, 'the earth in its journey turning us again / toward the light. The text of good will arriving,' what can we do but embrace her joyful invitation to 'now, love, put on your clown nose / and dance with me under the wandering planets.'"—Ronald Wallace
"THE ONLY HOME WE KNOW is a book where memory functions as a spirit guide through the various details, wonders and terrors of our world. It is a book that takes a private hurt and makes it into a lyrical space where beauty is possible, is necessary. There is a tenderness and exuberance here that win me over, 'I'd mandate that every child at birth would be issued a drum,' the author says. Indeed. Bravo."—Ilya Kaminsky
Author Bio
Robin Chapman is the author of ten books of poetry, including most recently THE ONLY HOME WE KNOW (Tebot Bach), poems about our fragile world, and Six True Things, poems about growing up in the Manhattan Project town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Other collections include the Posner Poetry Award-winning books THE WAY IN and Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos (with J.C. Sprott's fractals). Her book The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead received a Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Poetry Book of the Year Award, and her book ABUNDANCE received the Cider Press Editors' Book Award. She has also co-edited the anthologies On Retirement and LOVE OVER 60: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN'S POEMS, and collaborated with composers, painters, textile artists and scientists in producing work.
Author City: MADISON, WI USA