Graft - Heath, Helen
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To graft something is to fix two things together like tree branches or skin in order to heal or grow something new, and appropriately the poems in Graft attempt to bring things together--ideas, cultures, and people. Inspired by the word itself--which originates from the Old Norse groftr, meaning "to dig"--the poems dig away at things, trying to find a truth or an answer or a lost person. What is found is often not quite that which was sought. This collection brings together unlikely pairs: science and magical thinking, fact and fiction, myth and history, as well as more predictable pairings with less predictable outcomes.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
To graft something is to fix two things together like tree branches or skin in order to heal or grow something new, and appropriately the poems in Graft attempt to bring things together--ideas, cultures, and people. Inspired by the word itself--which originates from the Old Norse groftr, meaning "to dig"--the poems dig away at things, trying to find a truth or an answer or a lost person. What is found is often not quite that which was sought. This collection brings together unlikely pairs: science and magical thinking, fact and fiction, myth and history, as well as more predictable pairings with less predictable outcomes.
Autorenporträt
Helen Heath is a poet who has been published in many journals in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. She is the author of the poetry collection Watching for Smoke and the recipient of the inaugural ScienceTeller Poetry Award in 2011 for her poem "Making Tea in the Universe." She is also the recipient of the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry Award.