A Common Name for Everything

By Sarah Wolfson

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1950584135
• ISBN13: 9781950584130
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Green Writers Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"