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The Next World by Christien Gholson
The Next World explores the grief, anger, horror and illumination found on the border between the world as it is now and the one it is evolving into in the wake of climate change catastrophes. These poems wrestle with the difficulty of acknowledging a myriad of endings: species, places, but also the fundamental seasonal and environmental cycles that humans have always known. Simultaneously they explore what regeneration, hope, and “the future” might mean for us now. These poems allow for confusion, for questions, finding the beauty within the terror and revealing the terror inside the beauty. POETRY / General ISBN: 978-1-962082-43-3 (print; softcover; perfect bound) Copyright: 2025; Released 1-28-2025 94 pages |
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“Read the poems in Christien Gholson’s new book, The Next World. Breathe them deeply in. Live with them awhile. They are, in a word, “oracular” —all the proof I require that Gholson himself is that rare thing, a latter-day ‘technician of the sacred.’ Amen.” “These are poems of revelation—tarantulas, ferns, a ruined house, bees, parasites, sea lions, ancestors. Realms of the living and dead disappear and re-appear, and often it is impossible to tell which is which. Elegant and surprising, Gholson’s poems help construct a self in a rapidly devolving landscape marked by war and disaster. Language itself, and the present moment, serve as a kind of antidote to despair. The poems in The Next World don’t boast that they are redemptive, but they are.” |
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