Garden on an Alien Star System

<p>A gimlet-eyed catalogue of the natural world and contained within it the world within ourselves. Irresistible language makes it a classic.</p><p> <strong>Andrew Sean Greer</strong> author of the novel <em>LESS</em> the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner</p><p><br></p><p>The prose poem Hose. Ants. Plants. Expressway. alone makes this delightful chapbook worthy of our close consideration-and is emblematic too of this glorious serious humorous loving paean to the natural world and us in it in this to quote another poem personal myth of the garden.</p><p> <strong>Claire Ortalda</strong> Georgia State University Fiction Prize Winner</p><p><br></p><p>In Judith Cody's gorgeous collection of poems <em>Garden on an Alien Star</em> a fistful of soil is a place of endless wonder where the poet sings praises to decay and a window box is a magical crossroads where the human and natural worlds interact. The gardener's many relationships with her flowers and weeds are full of metaphors for personal and spiritual relationships. Everyday experiences take on mythical stature in one poem it's a line of ants along a garden hose in another poem it's a descending cascade of petals distracting a brown towhee from an earwig. The poems in this collection offer the poet's vision of a backyard Eden where today's creation legends continue to be forever born and reborn.</p><p> <strong>John Curl</strong> author of novels <em>The Outlaws of Maroon</em> <em>The Co-op Conspiracy</em> and the history <em>Indigenous Peoples Day</em> </p><p><br></p>