They Gather Around Me The Animals

Selected By Diane Seuss As Winner Of The 2024 Barbara Stevens Poetry Book Awardnational Federation Of State Poetry Societiesthe Brilliance Of Kunjana Parashars They Gather Around Me, The Animals Gleams Through The Lens Of The Majesty Of The Animals That Were Here, Are Here, And May Well Be Disappearing, In Poems Jubilant And Elegiac At Once. Parashars Approach To Language And Form Evolves Through The Course Of The Book, From The Devotional To The Surreal, From Contrapuntal To Pantoum, Concrete Poems To Erasures, Poems Written In Both The Presence And The Absence Of The Animals That Are Their Subjects, And Written In A Diction Which Opens The Lexicon To The Language Of The Ecological Imagination. I See Pictures Of Blue-green Hexacorals Patching A Floor Of Zoanthids Like A Zardozi Dream & I Say Listen, I Love You Too, She Writes.