The Origins of Streams by Rachel Economy

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The poems in The Origins of Streams are full of earth-bodies: bees and dragonflies; potatoes and oceans. And these exist alongside human bodies, in intimate relationship to others & also to themselves.  So a self-Heimlich maneuver to bring back breath; so the sensual bodying forth of earth from tongues and fingernails:  this poet likes to be in the very thick of it. That means… trying to find a way to describe atomic agency as a kind of dance, magnetism and intentional choreography of non-human ecology fully intact; it means a persistent drilling down into a human that must also be of this earth. Rachel Economy knows that the wounds of what Adam Zagajewski calls the “mutilated world” are a shared landscape, that the earth is bound up in all of the other bodies to which it is also home. The Origin of Streams is filled to brimming with such revelations and, too, with the praise and grief which attend such close observations and experiences.  This is, as the poet herself suggests, an offering born of “storyteller thumbs,” but it evolves in the surest hands.

–Rick Benjamin, former Rhode Island state poet laureate

 

 

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The Origins of Streams

by Rachel Economy

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-403-4

2021

In this collection, the reader will find themselves on an aching and vibrant journey through the sensory stuff of self and world, meeting bodies that become mountain ranges, lovers that turn to lions, and dragonflies that refuse to play dead in order to be free. You might encounter the beginnings of humanity as a species of storytellers and dancing matter, or find whispers of a future that, even after collapse, slips seeds into the soil to survive.

Rachel Economy is a poet-performer, artist, ecological educator, and gardener. She is the owner and lead editor at Index For The Next World, an online hub of story-publication and skills-education for those seeking to build a world that thrives. Rachel holds a master’s degree in Social Innovation and Sustainability from Goddard College, with a concentration in Transformative Language Arts. She teaches ecological gardening, systems thinking, writing & performance, permaculture design, group facilitation, maker & homesteader crafts, and embodied nature connection skills to all ages, in both rural and urban settings. Her poetry and other writing can be found in Dark Mountain, Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, Dark Matter Women Witnessing, and various other publications. Learn more at www.indexforthenextworld.com.

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