Green, Eryn: BEIT

Description

BEIT by Eryn Green (New Issues, paperback)

Publication Date: April 21, 2020

Publisher Marketing: “Eryn Green’s new collection of poetry BEIT is a lyric examination of the idea of home, and how it intersects with the essential human experiences of love, attachment, and loss. Filtered through a Hebrew sense of the letter Bet–the second letter of the Aleph-Bet, and the root of the Hebrew word for home– BEIT explores the connection between the internal and external worlds of poetic expression and spiritual inhabitation.

The collection includes poems addressing the vast constellation of concerns inherently built into a home–family, romance, protection, loss, tenderness, the fear of violence, and one’s place within the natural world–while asking probing questions of how attentive, poetic care might help us to see our shared spaces more clearly. How does the microcosm of the home relate to the broader macrocosmic physical world? Where does language factor into the relation between the self, the spirit, the other, and the planet? And what can poetry do to assuage our grief at the loss of the people and spaces we love in a universe of unavoidable change?”