A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Autumn 2022. [To] The
Last [Be] Human collects four extraordinary poetry books-Sea
Change, PLACE, fast, and Runaway-by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie
Graham. From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane: The earliest of
the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million
of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per million;
that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively.
The body of work gathered here stands as an extraordinary lyric
record of those eighteen calamitous years: a glittering, teeming
Anthropocene journal, rife with hope and raw with loss, lush and
sparse, hard to parse and hugely powerful to experience. Graham's
poems are turned to face our planet's deep-time future, and their
shadows are cast by the long light of the will-have-been. But they
are made of more durable materials than granite and concrete, and
their tasks are of record as well as warning: to preserve what it
has felt like to be a human in these accelerated years when "the
future / takes shape / too quickly", when we are entering "a time /
beyond belief". They know, these poems, and what they tell is
precise to their form... Sometimes they are made of ragged,
hurting, hurtling, and body-fleeing language; other times they
celebrate the sheer, shocking, heart-stopping gift of the given
world, seeing light, tree, sea, skin, and star as a "whirling robe
humming with firstness". To read these four twenty-first-century
books together in a single volume is to experience vastly complex
patterns forming and reforming in mind, eye, and ear. These poems
sing within themselves, between one another, and across
collections, and the song that joins them all is uttered simply in
the first lines of the last poem of the last book: The earth said
remember me. The earth said don't let go, said it one day when I
was accidentally listening
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