One of Big Other's "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2020"
In this fiercely feminist ecopoetic collection, Kathryn Nuernberger reclaims love and resilience in an age of cruelty.
As the speaker—an artist and intellectual—finds herself living through a rocky marriage in a conservative rural state, she maintains her sense of identity by studying the science and folklore of plants historically used for birth control. Her botanical portraits of common herbs like Queen Anne’s lace and pennyroyal are interwoven with lyric biographies of groundbreaking women ecologists whose stories have been left untold in textbooks.
With equal parts righteous fury and tender wisdom, Rue reassesses the past and recontextualizes the present to tell a story about breaking down, breaking through, and breaking into an honest, authentic expression of self.
- ISBN10 1942683979
- ISBN13 9781942683971
- Publish Date 21 May 2020 (first published 7 April 2020)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint BOA Editions, Limited
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 104
- Language English