Description
Author: Risa Denenberg, Finalist of the 2020 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award
Year: 2020
ISBN: 978-1-930446-55-7
Pages: 48
Posthuman by Risa Denenberg is a warning and a wonder. The book begins on “a warm day in April” and ends with an ecological apocalypse. Smoke rises, oceans rise, Denenberg herself, however, “can’t rise up any more.” These timely and relevant poems lament the damage we do to the earth while it imagines a posthuman landscape where “bees / will grow fat and rejoice.” This book, though dire at times, displays a wisdom found by those who do not look away, who choose to witness the world on fire.
With a controlled voice and unflinching self-interrogation, Denenberg has written a book that is deeply personal, poignant, and utterly human.
*Note: If you submitted to the 2020 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Competition, you will receive copies of both of this year’s books when they are released.
Risa Denenberg lives on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state where she works as a nurse practitioner. She is a co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press, publisher of lesbian/bi/trans poetry, and curates The Poetry Café, an online meeting place where poetry chapbooks are celebrated and reviewed. She has published three previous chapbooks and three full length collections of poetry. Her most recent publications are “slight faith” (MoonPath Press, 2018) and this chapbook, “Posthuman” (Floating Bridge Press, 2020).
For more information visit https://thepoetrycafe.online & https://risadenenberg.com
