The Red List: A Poem

by Stephen Cushman

The "red list" of Stephen Cushman's new volume of poetry is the endangered species register, and the book begins and ends with the bald eagle, a bird that bounded back from the verge of extinction. The volume marks the inevitability of such changes, from danger to safety, from certainty to uncertainty, from joy to sadness and back again. In a single poem that advances through wordplay and association, Cushman meditates on subjects as vast as the earth's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807156892
• ISBN13: 9780807156896
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"