Midwest Book Review Celebrates the Environment

 

 

Sublime Planet

Celebrating Earth Day and the Universe
Magdalena Ball & Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Cover Photography  by Ann Howley

Genre: Poetry/Environment
CreateSpace, www.createspace.com
ISBN Paperback: 9781482054705 $12.95

Kindle www.amazon.com $4.95

 

Reviewed by John Burroughs, originally for  Burroughs' Bookshelf on Midwest Review

 

Award-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball present Sublime Planet, a poetry compilation with a strong ecological theme. Some of the free-verse poems have been previously published in a variety of print and online journals; now they are gathered into a single volume to celebrate Earth Day, and promote environmental awareness. Lucid and erudite, Sublime Planet succinctly reminds one that the body that it is part of a much greater ecosystem, and stirs the soul with its call to the duty of stewardship.

 

"The Giraffe"

 

A tongue generous

as my head he reaches

for me, barriers no match

for his long neck, sniffs

my hair, kisses my face.

He is unaware

he is endangered,

I unaware he might

be dangerous.

 

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