Love: A Zoography To pay by check please use this order form. We are pleased to take orders from retailers. Email us with details about your order or call us at 207-837-5760. Love: A Zoography considers love across species and interrogates the meaning of a ‘love poem’ beyond eros to a compassion for the world. Several poems reference imagined sermons by Saint Francis of Assissi, the patron saint of animals and ecology. This collection seeks to enlighten readers to the miracle and wonder of the universe, and to a conviction that our planet is sacred and deserving of love. POETRY / General ISBN: 978-1-971191-42-3 (print; softcover; perfect bound) LCCN: 2026953869 Released November 10, 2026 | Copyright 2026 90 pages |
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Eric Fisher Stone is a poet from Fort Worth, Texas. He received an MFA in writing and the environment from Iowa State University. He is currently a PhD student, composition instructor, and tutor at Oklahoma State University. His publications include three full-length collections of poems: The Providence of Grass, (Chatter House Press), Animal Joy, (WordTech Editions), and Bear Lexicon, (Clare Songbirds Publishing House). |
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“If a book of poems were a drop of pond water on a slide under a microscope and you could put your eye to the grand complexity and density of the universe swimming lovingly within, it would be this dense, compelling, utterly original collection by Eric Fisher Stone—Love: A Zoography. With its visceral lyricism, it offers fresh affection for everything that walks, crawls, or has ever flown on this earth or any other. Enter here and be transported to the souls of paramecia and every other ordinary living thing made extraordinary by Stone’s close, enchanted vision.” “In Love: A Zoography, poet Eric Fisher Stone declares moss piglets, spiders, lice, and fleas ‘tiny artists’ who ‘varnished history / with their slime as they kept painting / over the haloes of the saints.’ Every poem stuns with insights like these—in teeming language, steeped with reverence and exuberance. Stone’s lyrical imagination takes us from Saint Francis preaching to space aliens to the speaker rescuing Pliny the Elder from Vesuvius’s toxic fumes, while also remaining tethered and tender toward the twenty-first century world we’re living in—for better or worse. The speaker (on a mushroom trip, no less) retorts to the devil ‘let sweet murderous Earth / remain pregnant with our fates, tender / to providence.’ This collection reminds us of ‘the sky’s terrible blue truth’ and all the beauty—javelina, bottlefly, leopard seal, wild hamster—that survives underneath it, including you, human, despite the heartbreak and the grief.” |
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