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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback!Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection.Margaret Renkl,New York TimesA lovely book to take with you to read at t


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback!

Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection.
Margaret Renkl,New York Times

A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike.
Los Angeles Times

Published associationwith the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, this book challenges what we think we know about nature poetry, illuminating the myriad ways our landscapesboth literal and literaryare changing.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nations most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto Gonzlez, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its authors local landscapebe it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stopoffering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.

Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what nature and poetry are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

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