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This One We Call Ours

Martha Silano

Linda Bierds, Series Editor

Price range: $18.95 through $25.00

Martha Silano’s award-winning new collection is a passionate cry on behalf of the Earth and all who dwell upon it. Very few poets have dared to show us, so clearly, the edge of peril to which we have brought our only home. This is a staggeringly important book.

Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, Vol. 27

Lynx House Press

$25.00 / 978-0-89924-200-2 / Hdb. / 84 pages

$18.95 / 978-0-89924-203-3 / Pbk. / 84 pages

Winner of the 2024 Blue Lynx Prize for poetry

 

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This is Martha Silano’s award-winning new collection.

Now available in paperback! The title of Martha Silano’s This One We Call Ours refers to the planet Earth, our only home. Her poems are both hymns of praise and stern, irrefutable warnings regarding our future upon it. Even with all that seriousness, the poems are also both hypnotic and lyrical, celebrating  the Earth’s wonders and glories.

About the author:

Martha Silano has authored multiple poetry books, including Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019). She is co-author of The Daily Poet: Day-by-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice (Two Sylvias Press, 2013). Martha’s poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review, Carolina Quarterly, Image, Verse Daily, Cimarron Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She teaches at Bellevue College and Hugo House in Seattle, Washington.

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Format

Hardback, Paperback