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Everwhen<\/span><\/span><\/em> is an anxious, verdant poetry collection that is preoccupied with a chthonic era\u2014when the secrets of long ago catch up to now, and when the past, present, and future collapse into what\u2019s long been identified by <\/span>indigenous<\/span> cultures and early naturalists as Uncreation or Deep Time. Driven by the voice of the betrayed Roman goddess Ceres, these poems consider what it is like to live out of time, to suffer unnamed illnesses of the female body, to love and grieve at the end of the world, and to even find hope and joy in \u201cthe way an apocalypse can mean\/ to reveal.\u201d\u202f<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About the author<\/h2>\n

Anne Barngrover is the author of two poetry collections: <\/span><\/span>Brazen Creature <\/span><\/span><\/em>(University of Akron Press, 2018), <\/span><\/span>Yell Hound Blues<\/em> <\/span><\/span>(<\/span>Shipwreckt<\/span> Books, 2013) and co-author with Avni Vyas of the chapbook <\/span><\/span>Candy in Our Brains <\/span><\/span><\/em>(<\/span>CutBank<\/span>, 2014). Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in <\/span><\/span>Verse Daily<\/span><\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/span>The Slowdown <\/span><\/span><\/em>podcast, <\/span><\/span>Arts & Letters<\/span><\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/span>Guernica<\/span><\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/span>Ecotone<\/span><\/span><\/em>, and others. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Saint Leo University, where she is on faculty in the low-residency MA program in Creative Writing, and lives in Tampa, Florida<\/span>.\u202f\u202f<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Praise for Everwhen<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

There is so much to admire in Anne Barngrover\u2019s new poetry collection, <\/span>Everwhen<\/span><\/i>: linguistic spectaculars, tonal and formal variety, and a prismatic sense of time\u2014the way it stretches into our mythic past and tenuous future while still engaging the issues we face now. These stunning, lyrical poems spiral imaginatively around the subject of toxicity in patriarchal and Capitalist structures, in human bodies, and in our planet. Throughout the collection we encounter Ceres, goddess of agriculture, who bears witness to the catastrophe humans have made of Earth. Yet, she is one of many voices in this book. These voices, both human and nonhuman, are weary, sick, and anxious, yet they persist. Together, they form a chorus to remind us that we are still alive, connected, reaching for possibility: \u201cWe are all in need of rewilding,\u201d Barngrover seems to tell us. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do this alone.”\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Danielle Cadena Deulen\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anne Barngrover\u2019s breathtaking and necessary third collection <\/span><\/span>Everwhen<\/span><\/span><\/em> is an act of love, a brutal and yet nourishing companion for these times. With brilliant and lush lyricism, her poems are both elegy and ode, guiding us through the unrelenting cascades of catastrophe and collapse, while reminding us that we\u2014our bodies and imaginations\u2014 are not separate from earth, and that this is both our crisis and grace: \u201cThe ocean remembers. The planets remember. My body remembers everything you\u2019ve done.\u201d\u00a0 What a gift to be told with clarity and warmth that we are doomed. And what an astonishing mercy to be shown how precious we are. Barngrover brings us back to our own wilderness. To read <\/span><\/span>Everwhen<\/span><\/span> is to be rewilded, returned to our capacity for gratitude, care, and possibility.” <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>\u2014Kendra <\/span>DeColo<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

From a barred owl flying straight into the poet\u2019s car\u2014\u201ctalons ripping \/\/ at the swamp curdled air,\u201d\u2014to a poem told from the perspective of air plants\u2014\u201cwe mean and do no harm,\u201d <\/span><\/span>Everwhen <\/span><\/span><\/em>brilliantly balances the nightmare of ecological collapse with crystalline moments of intimacy, joy, and painful loss. This is a collection written, \u201cwhen the maps go away<\/span>\u201d;<\/span> it is a language-terrain \u201ctoo hot for ruins,\u201d Ceres stranded in a burning rainforest during a global heat wave. In sharply perceptive moments, Barngrover skillfully fuses formal diversity with direct, heartbreaking utterance: \u201cI just want \/ our terrifying lives \/ to mean something \/ before the sun comes up.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>\u2014Sandra Simonds<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Media<\/h2>\n

What Barngrover brings to the table with this collection is a critical and timely call to action and uncovering of truths that affect not only our planet and all of its wonder, not only women and the worlds our bodies make, but the core of our humanity as people and as residents\u2014or even stewards \u2014of Earth and our own individual and collective wellbeing. \u2014Emily Rose Miller<\/a>, Up The Staircase Quarterly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne Barngrover<\/span><\/p>\n

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