“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.
- ISBN10 0393353435
- ISBN13 9780393353433
- Publish Date 7 November 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English