Swerve - by Ellery Akers (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"One of the best Environmentalism books of all time" - BookAuthority</strong></p><p><br></p><p> Best New Light eBooks</p><p><br></p><p>The late W. S. Merwin said Akers's nature poems are a "joy to discover" because they embody a "lost sense of the living world." In <em>Swerve, </em> Akers celebrates the wild while facing climate change, extinction, and loss. These poems confront us with the many threats to our world, eventually guiding us through stages of grief towards hope and action.</p><p>The poems in <em>Swerve</em> give voice to the shock, fear, and desperation many feel about the environment. They meditate on the beauty of the non-human world. They champion women in the #MeToo movement who are empowering themselves and making vital changes.</p><p>Powerful and compassionate, <em>Swerve </em>is ultimately a call to activism, inspiring readers to "swerve" and demand a better world. </p><p>Ellery Akers is the author of three books of poetry. Her most recent collection is <em>Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance </em>(Blue Light Press, 2020). She is also the author of <em>Practicing the Truth </em>(Autumn House, 2015), winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize, the San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award, and an Independent Publisher Book Award for Poetry; <em>Knocking on the Earth </em>(Wesleyan University Press, 1988), named a <em>Best Book of the Year </em>by the <em>San Jose Mercury News; </em>and <em>Sarah's Waterfall</em> (Safer Society Press, 2009), a children's novel.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><strong>Praise for Swerve</strong></p><p><em>"</em>In the world we are in now, and the harrowing world to come, we need poems as guides, and as resistance to the forces that would corrupt and diminish us. For some time now, Ellery Akers has been crafting these necessary poems. <em>Swerve</em> is a book that confronts the primary issues of the 21<sup>st</sup> century with insight and candor, along with hope and courage."</p><p>--Joseph Stroud, author of <em>Everything That Rises</em> and <em>Of This World: New and Selected Poems</em></p><p> </p><p>"True and brave... I have just discovered a remarkable book."</p><p>--Kathleen Dean Moore, environmental activist and author of <em>Piano Tide </em>and <em>Wild Comfort </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Previous Praise for Ellery Akers </strong></p><p> </p><p>"Ellery Akers has the golden gift, with good profit to literature."</p><p><em>--The Washington Independent Review of Books</em></p><p> </p><p>"Akers finds moments of utter mystery and terrifying beauty in the least expected and commonplace."</p><p><em>--Booklist</em></p><p> </p><p><em>"</em><em>With the passion and determination of an abuse survivor, the exploring mind of a naturalist, and the soul energy of a language-loving poet, Akers gives us not one truth, but layer on layer of overlapping truths...."</em></p><p><em>--Alicia Ostriker </em></p><p> </p><p>"There is a kind of radiance in this book--earthy radiance--body light."</p><p><em>--Women's Review of Books</em></p><p> </p><p><em>"</em><em>Practicing the Truth </em>is one of those rare books one can't stop reading. It's<em> </em>that good, that compelling."</p><p>--Dorianne Laux, about <em>Practicing the Truth</em></p><p> </p><p><em>" </em>...An intelligent and deeply political set of poems." --<em>KIrkus Reviews </em></p><br>
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