Longenbach's language remains sparse, calm, and graceful even as his poems confront the finiteness of individual human lives. Longenbach gives his readers a route to follow, and its turns are precise. Earthling stuns me with its clarities, it fascinates me to no end. Is it Longenbach's passionate precision? Is it his absolute unmixed attentiveness that's akin to prayer? To my mind, Earthling is far more than just another brilliant, elegant book of verse: this is elegance at the edge of the abyss. This is a human voice that has come to the middle of life's desert to find that "In the middle of the desert / you might be anyone." Longenbach finds here the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet: his voice in this book becomes any earthling's voice. How does he do it? How does he give clarity to the human in us? In another century people used to call this effect visionary work: the poetry of a true mystic.--Ilya Kaminsky Earthling is a gift--wise, aching, unafraid of pleasure and the less-than-pleasurable things that pleasure may commit us to. The whole thing is both grounded and airborne. A wonderful book.--Matthew Bevis
"Earthling" is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly, James Longenbach traces the life of a modern-day earthling as he looks squarely at his little patch of earth and at the vast emptiness of interstellar space. Beginning with the death of the earthling's mother and ending with a confrontation with his own mortality, the poems within Earthling resist complaint or agitation. In them, the real and the imagined, the material and the allegorical, intersect at shifting angles and provide fresh perspectives and lasting consolation.
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