Dear Specimen: Poems

by W.J. Herbert

Book Overview

A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes.

A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive?

Dear Specimen opens with both its speaker and her planet in peril. In "Speak to Me," she puzzles over a millipede, as if the blue rune of its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807007595
• ISBN13: 9780807007594
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"