Böcker av Bin Ramke

A collection of poems that reveal the value of simple events in our lives. It shows how the family, culture, class, gender, historical moment, landscape, and the language we use come together to impact reality.

"A kind of translation of a thousand-year-old poem, "Earth took of Earth," this book is an attempt to restate in personal, emotional terms a sense of both danger and of consolation from earth itself. Many of these poems arose during a collaboration with the ecologist-ceramicist Mia Mulvey: her work with earth, clay often extruded through digitally guided machinery, continually rhymes with Ramke's attempts to understand damages done, but also to celebrate the facts of earth-as, for instance, that geosmin, the scent of wet soil, is so recognizable even in trace amounts. The title of this book is a play on the phrase "heaven on earth": no, the very best-and it is a lot-to hope for is earth on earth"--

Scientific elegies of ambition and failure from this esteemed poet