Red Ocher
Red Ocher by Jessica Poli, published by University of Arkansas Press in March 2023, is a collection of poetry that intertwines themes of mortality and romantic loss. This edition spans 82 pages and is presented in English. The poems reflect on the natural world’s wildness while exploring the emotional landscapes shaped by experiences of grief and unrequited love.
Readers will find that Poli’s work delves into the cyclical nature of love and loss, capturing moments of both beauty and sorrow. The collection features vivid imagery, such as a dying lamb and the decay of brussels sprouts, to illustrate the complexities of human emotions. Through her ecopoetic lens, Poli invites contemplation of the sacred found in everyday life, from overgrown woods to rural joy rides, all while navigating the intertwined experiences of death, grief, and the enduring presence of desire.
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In Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher, the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss: a lamb runt dies in the night, a first-time lover inflicts casual cruelties, brussels sprouts rot in a field, love goes quietly and unbearably unrequited. This is an ecopoetics that explores the cyclical natures of love and grief, mindful that “there will be room for desire / again, even after it leaves / like a flood receding, / the damaged farmhouses / and washed-away bridges / lying scattered the next day / amid silt and debris.” Throughout, Poli’s poems hold space for the sacred—finding it in woods overgrown with thorny weeds, in drunken joy rides down rural roads, and in the red ocher barns that haunt the author’s physical and emotional landscapes.
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