Common Name for Everything
Publisher: Green Writers Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9781950584130
Description: "The poems in A Common Name for Everything build idiosyncratic worlds around the themes of nature, home, parenting, and naming&#x2014;worlds that are at once poignant and absurd: a professional namer of lakes explains his standards; the rural gods are given names; a study of sheep results in loneliness. Steeped in sound play and borrowing academic language to create a specimen lens, these poems bask in the local as they seek to name even the commonest earthly things."--Publisher's website.