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Here, as in much of Nutter's previous work, the boundaries between the animal and human worlds are permeable; the urgent voice of the poet insists we recognize that \"Even from a distance, suffering \/ is suffering.\" Here is both acknowledgment and challenge: distance may be measured in terms of time, culture, or place, or it may be caused by the gap between animals and humans, but it is our responsibility to speak against atrocity and bloodshed, however voiceless we may feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJude Nutter has published in numerous journals and is the recipient of several national and international poetry awards. Her second collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Curator of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Notre Dame Press), won the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry and the Ernest Sandeen Prize in 2007. 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Woloch weds us to the natural world through language that is both straightforward and particular. A \"river's lifting dress\" comes to represent history; branches swaying \"like the arms of a woman waving goodbye\" come to represent mortality. These remarkable poems are hymns and requiems; they are made of \"blood mixed with earth.\" -Terrance Hayes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese poems reflect a mature writer, a woman unflinching in both love and craft. The love is unabashed; the language boldly lyrical and image-rich. As a devoted reader of Cecilia Woloch's writing, I relish anything she offers, so I welcome Earth, this book of passionate, vigorous poetry, in which grandeur of spirit always redeems sorrow. 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