Earth Days: Poems, Chants, & Spells in Five Directions

Annie Finch's spellbinding poems give voice to the earth-centered spirituality of our era. Finch is a renowned poetry witch who skillfully draws on the secrets of poetic rhythm and craft to honor the sacredness of the natural world. EARTH DAYS gathers her poems over five decades around the elements of fire (flame, sun, stars, heat, passion); air (moon, wind, light, wisdom); earth (mud, roots, mountain, tree, strength); water (ocean, river, rain, tears, heart); and matrix (intuition, mystery, ritual, spirit). Finch's poems enchant the ear as well as the mind, combining her virtuosic use of poetic craft with a rhapsodic, transformative, and feminist postmodern sensibility.

Dense and musically alive, this is poetry meant to be read aloud. This is the first collection of Finch's poetry to be published outside of the U.S and gathers Finch's most cherished poems along with previously uncollected new poems. Poems included in the book have appeared in leading periodicals including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Yale Review.