Never Poems
Never Poems by Jorie Graham is a thought-provoking collection published by HarperCollins on March 4, 2003. This first edition features 128 pages and is presented in English. The poems primarily explore the pressing concerns surrounding our environment in crisis, reflecting on the philosophical challenges of capturing a physical world that may be lost or obscured from human perception.
Readers will find that Graham’s work delves into themes of ecological awareness and the complexities of human existence within a changing landscape. Her fragmented and dynamic style invites contemplation, as she grapples with the limitations of language and the act of representation. The collection encourages an engagement with the natural world and the profound questions surrounding its preservation and our understanding of it.
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Jorie Graham’s collection of poems, Never, primarily addresses concern over our environment in crisis. One of the most challenging poets writing today, Graham is no easy read, but the rewards are well worth the effort. While thematically present, her concern is not exclusively the demise of natural resources and depletion of species, but the philosophical and perceptual difficulty in capturing and depicting a physical world that may be lost, or one that we humans have limited sight of and into. As she notes in “The Taken-Down God”: “We wish to not be erased from the / picture. We wish to picture the erasure. The human earth and its appearance. / The human and its disappearance.”
With a style that is fragmented and somewhat whirling–language dips and darts and asides are taken–Graham stays on point and presents an honest intellect at work, fumbling for an accurate understanding (or description) of the natural world, self-conscious about the limitations of language and perception.
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