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Fireflies

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Description for Fireflies Paperback. A debut collection of poetry from an award-winning nature writer. Fireflies is a collection of lyrci poems - formal and informal - that seek solace in nature and memory for the heartache of being human. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 525.
Debut collection of poetry from an award-winning nature writer

Fireflies is a collection of lyrci poems- formal and informal—that seek solace in nature and memory for the heartache of being human.

From children chasing fireflies at night to middle agers chasing lost loves at three in the morning, they trace the compromises we make to make it—the dead mice, cats, fetuses, and loves left in our wakes. And they celebrate the tenuous survival of trees, love, and innocence.

MONARCHS

Monarchs ride fall’s cold fronts south in waves,

warming us in thin orange blankets stitched ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Mercer University Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780881465501
SKU
V9780881465501
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About John Leland
John Leland has written nature essays— Readings in Wood, Learning the Valley, and Porcher’s Creek—and Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America. He teaches at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

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