Once When Green: Poems

by Mark Irwin

"We breathe, and then / vanish," proclaims a speaker in Once When Green, a new collection by accomplished poet Mark Irwin. While deeply personal, the book engages the earth, "gulls, / gray, quarreling air, their ha-ha-ha-ing at our trace / of garbage and carbon," and addresses mortality as well as the consequences of global warming--how it impacts humans, animals, and the plant life that sustains us all. Poems here accent the lateness of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625348657
• ISBN13: 9781625348654
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 80 Pages