![]() This is exquisite, playful, intentional poetry-and it just might be medicine for us all.” Leah Horlick, author of For Your Own Good, calls Re-Origin of Species “a hive of a book.” “Naccarato’s shimmering threads illuminate the connections that bind together every living thing on every level of being-from the interpersonal, to the political, to the spiritual. “In this debut collection of startling beauty, Alessandra Naccarato weaves together the mythological and mundane, the ephemeral and the eternal, into a luminous tapestry of lyric and narrative,” writes acclaimed author Kai Cheng Thom. ![]() Naccarato’s book is a lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and longlisted for the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, Re-Origin of Species draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world. ![]() ![]() Today, our mood board series continues with Re-Origin of Species, Alessandra Naccarato’s debut poetry collection. ![]()
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