num_pages: 80
description: In her fourth collection Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue notea sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion inviting in the grief of an elephant the icy eyes of a scallop the ribs / of a silver silo and the bright flash of painted fingernails. With unmatched sincerity Oceanic speaks to each reader as a cooperative part of the natural worldthe extraordinary neighborhood to which we all belong. This is a poet ecstatically emphatically naming what it means to love a world in peril.
language: English
title: Oceanic
publisher: Copper Canyon Press