TWICE ALIVE
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In the searing ecological and love poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and on the tradition of Sangam literature, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illumines our deep-tangled interrelations.
While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wild- fires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.
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Reviews
At The Marginalian by Maria Popova At Los Angeles Review of Books by Meryl Natchez
At Harriet/Poetry Foundation by Jay Gao At HyperAllergic by Albert Mobilio At FlyWay: Journal of Writing & Environment by Zoë Fay-Stindt
Interview with Zack Finch at Adroit Journal
At The Underlook by Joseph Earp
At West Branch (Bucknell) by Esteban Rodríguez
At The Argus Courier by David Templeton
AudioFile review of the audio book Twice Alive
At NPR by Craig Morgan Teicher
At McSweeney's by Jesse Nathan
At ALTA: interview with Jessica Blough
At Panhandle Health by Phillip Periman
At Publishers Weekly
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LIT HUB Conversation with Brad Listi
DMQ Virtual Salon
“In his new collection, Gander, an Inland Empire resident and Pulitzer Prize winner, interweaves human connections with those forged between the different species that make up lichen to create emotionally striking poems focused on the existential, intimate role people play in the environmental tensions of our planet”