Survival: Trees, Tides, Song by Marjorie Moorhead

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In her debut collection, Survival: Trees, Tides, Song, Marjorie Moorhead sings odes, elegies, and dirges, by turns celebrating the planet’s natural wonders and grieving its plight at the hands of its human inhabitants. Sky, clouds, trees, starlight, the song of birds, or the whispering of the wind. Stone houses, wooden barns, and roads, everywhere roads. Walking through seasons, through hours—all metaphors for the life duly lived, the growing up, the growing old, the being together and apart, the rearing of young, and the emptying of the nest. Threats of environmental disaster mingle with those of terrorist attacks. Hints of mortality in the coming of winter snowstorms. This is a beautiful collection that chronicles a lifetime of preparing to live in the here and now.
–Michael Broder, author of Drug and Disease Free (Indolent Books, 2016) and This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.
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“Reading these poems, one experiences the slip of wet leaves underfoot, the weight of laden clouds, the beauty and bereftness of barren branches silhouetted against a pre-dawn sky. Marjorie Moorhead writes of the natural world in a way that is at once earthy and spiritual; an evocation of the elements that provokes the elemental forces–love, fear, wonder–within our own natures. An exquisite read.”
–Joni B. Cole, author, Good Naked: Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier
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In trying to understand our current geological age, we cannot only rely on the voice of the scientist, but rather we must turn to other disciplines to offer contrasting and more nuanced interpretations. Poetry offers one such interpretation, and in ‘Survival: Trees, Tides, Song’ Moorhead presents us with an insightful collection that asks each of us to consider not only our role in understanding the anthropocene, but in defining it as well, or as Moorhead observes in ‘Walking, Wondering, Telling a Tale’, “A Poets’ world mixes words with notions. // Questions that surface are pondered and turned”. These are vital poems, ones that afford us the luxury of foresight by presenting future consequences for the various choices that now lie before us. Facing up to these choices is not an easy task, but these poems enable us to better understand the responsibilities that we have in doing so; after all, as Moorhead concludes: “We cannot exist on this planet alone. // We should listen. We should cherish.”

–Dr Sam Illingworth, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication; Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

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Survival: Trees, Tides, Song

by Marjorie Moorhead

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-923-8

2019

Marjorie Moorhead’s poems of environment, survival, joy, come from four season change at the border of NH/VT, where she is a wife, mother of two, and member of The 4th Friday Poets. Her work can be seen in the anthologies A Change of Climate (benefitting the Environmental Justice Foundation), and Birchsong: Poetry Centered in VT, Vol.II (the Blueline Press). She also has many poems online, at sites from Indolent Books, Rising Phoenix Review, and others. Marjorie strives to walk her daily path with open eyes and heart.

 

4 reviews for Survival: Trees, Tides, Song by Marjorie Moorhead

  1. Marjorie (verified owner) –

    If you’d like a sample of Marjorie’s poetry, not included in the chapbook, here is a link to “December Clear”, on The Rising Phoenix Review for 1/29/19
    https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2019/01/29/december-clear-by-marjorie-moorhead/

  2. Nancy Solow –

    Beautifu,l reflective, deep and evocative poetry. A must read!

  3. Marjorie (verified owner) –

    another link to a poem not in the book; Marjorie’s “Murmuration”, can be seen here:

    https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-3-3-spring-2019-the-poets/marjorie-moorhead/

  4. Marjorie (verified owner) –

    beautifully written review of this book can be seen here:
    http://www.ecotheo.org/2020/01/listening-to-trees-tides-and-song-in-the-anthropocene/

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