Description
Human is a chapbook of visionary, ecologically-oriented poetry. In mythic, finely crafted, richly imagined poetry, Daniel Corrie confronts the destruction of the natural world and the emotional impact of this loss. Terrain.org describes Corrie’s poetry as “scripture for our troubled Anthropocene Era…. Corrie’s poetry is an unusual melding of largeness, vividness, dreaminess, and the meditative.” The chapbook’s poems are accompanied by color photography.
Praise for Daniel Corrie
Daniel Corrie’s poetry is scripture for our troubled Anthropocene Era. Patiently distilled, sometimes over many years, Corrie’s poems are deeply imaginative, clear, sonically rich, stylistically ambitious, original, and significantly meaningful…. Corrie’s poetry is an unusual melding of largeness, vividness, dreaminess, and the meditative…. Corrie’s is a poetry of consequence: his work is deeply committed to the creation of artistic means of addressing our time’s environmental degradations, including climate change and species extinctions. Yet, while Corrie’s poetry without apology engages such concerns of the world, his poetry extends beyond green poetics. Corrie’s poetry often is ritualistically incantatory and of dream imagination.
—William Wright,
writing in Terrain.org
…[Daniel Corrie’s] books are a gift. The poems they contain represent the best talents of what might be called the placed poet. They are specific and regional while also sweeping and universal: “Pine shape before me / stood for me, risen analogical— / meaning-bearer—” Their scope extends beyond the standard celebrations and warnings of “eco-poetry” since they are concerned with the health of the world along with the health of the human soul…. These poems are patient, studied, felt, transformative, and mythic….
—John Saad,
writing in The Birmingham Poetry Review
