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An imaginative reworking of the elegy that focuses on the difficult work of being with the dying.At the heart of The Cloud Path, celebrated author Melissa Kwasny's seventh collection of poetry, lies the passing of her beloved mother: the caretaking, the hospice protocols, the last breath, the afterm... Read More about The Cloud Path: Poems

In Putting on the Dog, Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing: leather, wool, silk, feathers, pearls, and fur. From silkworms grown on plantations in Japan and mink farms off Denmark's western coast to pearl beds in the... Read More about Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear

In Putting on the Dog, Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing: leather, wool, silk, feathers, pearls, and fur. From silkworms grown on plantations in Japan and mink farms off Denmark's western coast to pearl beds in the... Read More about Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear

"Romantic-environmental poetry of a high order." --HUFFINGTON POST This tour de force marks a breakthrough in Melissa Kwasny's poetic investigation of a collective consciousness. Drawing inspiration from Novalis (1772-1801), a poet who, like the other adherents of early German Romanticism, believed ... Read More about Reading Novalis in Montana

"An act of communion." --YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA "If you would learn the earth as it really is," N. Scott Momaday writes, "learn it through its sacred places." With this quote as her guiding light, Melissa Kwasny traveled to the ancient pictograph and petroglyph sites around her rural Montana home. The poe... Read More about Pictograph: Poems

In these exquisitely crafted prose poems, Melissa Kwasny examines the world around her with the quiet and profound attention of a poet at the height of her powers. The questions that have informed much of Kwasny's previous work--how does one have a relationship with the natural world in our time? Wh... Read More about The Nine Senses