{"product_id":"turned-earth-poems-paperback-softback-9780807183755","title":"Turned Earth; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807183755","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTurned Earth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrad Richard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807183755\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e90 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brad Richard is not only a poet but a master gardener. In these poems, he turns to the earth—whether he is tending his own stubborn, lush garden in New Orleans, rooting through a childhood that reblooms in memory, laying to rest his lost mother, or bringing into his landscape the labor of love. Richard gives us an earth disturbed but fertile, vulnerable but verdant, uprooted but regrown.\" - David Groff\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eTurned Earth,\u003c\/i\u003e Richard holds on to the ordinary exquisite as well as 'killer invasives.' The latter includes views of social injustice. Especially keen is his crown of sonnets, 'Matrilineation: Homage to Nell Parker (1944–2015),' an elegiac apostrophe where son muses over the mother's poetics. The reader will find sudden beauty everywhere.\" - Kimiko Hahn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTurned Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly meditative and mournful inquiry into forms of being and making. This significant and expansive collection calls us to map ecologies of planetary life, love, and loss across varied landscapes. Richard's book is a revelation.\" - Tonya M. Foster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurned Earth, \u003c\/i\u003ethe fifth collection of poems by Brad Richard, offers a portrait of the artist as a grieving son who is also a husband, teacher, gardener, and attentive witness to our precarious world. Navigating life after his mother's death, the speaker uses memory and imagination to understand, as one poem's title declares, \"How I Came to This.\" Tender and trenchant, elegiac yet often livened by humor, Richard's poems affirm the sustaining power of hope and love.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551798194456,"sku":"9780807183755","price":15.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/turned-earth-poems-paperback-softback-9780807183755","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}