Earth on Earth

By Bin Ramke

Poems that personally engage with the materiality and danger of earth.

A kind of translation of the thousand-year-old poem "Earth Took of Earth," this book is an attempt to restate in personal, emotional terms a sense of both the danger of and the consolation given by earth itself. Many of these poems arose during a collaboration with the ecologist-ceramicist Mia Mulvey: her work with earth, clay often extruded through digitally guided machinery, echoes Ramke's attempts to understand damages done to and celebrate the facts of earth--for instance, that geosmin, the scent of wet soil, is so powerfully recognizable even in trace amounts. The title of this book is also a play on the phrase "heaven on earth," turning this idea around and encouraging us to instead turn our hopes toward earth on earth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632430991
• ISBN13: 9781632430991
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"