A Common Name for Everything

The poems in A Common Name for Everything build idiosyncratic worlds around the themes of nature, home, parenting, and naming--worlds that are at once poignant and absurd: a professional namer of lakes explains his standards; the rural gods are given names; a study of sheep results in loneliness. Steeped in sound play and borrowing academic language to create a specimen lens, these poems bask in the local as they seek to name even the commonest earthly things.

Author: Sarah Wolfson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Green Writers Press
Published: 09/05/2019
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781950584130