Lanternfly August

<h3 class=ql-align-center>In <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Lanternfly August</em> Robin Gow contends with the emotional implications of home through the lens of an often-demonized species of insect.</h3><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><em>Lanternfly August</em><strong><em> </em></strong>by Robin Gow swirls the<strong> insect world</strong> and <strong>human identity </strong>into a fascinating mandala of <strong>self discovery</strong> and <strong>investigation</strong>. These poems use the <strong>lanternfly</strong> an insect that is often regarded with disdain as a lightning rod to channel thoughts about <strong>identity</strong> <strong>gender</strong> and <strong>self</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Many of these poems focus on the concept of returning <strong>home</strong>. Specifically the tension of returning to a place that you feel <strong>nostalgia </strong>for but a place that nonetheless you've <strong>grown </strong>past.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tender </strong>but <strong>focused</strong> <em>Lanternfly August </em>asks readers to question their relationship to the lanternfly. Why do we see it as a <strong>pest</strong>? Why doesn't it belong? What else in our lives do we hold in contempt and why?</p><p></p><p>This collection also features a <strong>bespoke interview </strong>with the writer at then end of the book delving deeper into the <strong>craft</strong> <strong>influences</strong> and <strong>life </strong>behind their work.</p><p></p><p>These <strong>complex </strong>poems also address <strong>place </strong>and the <strong>body </strong>in equal parts. Set against the thematic backdrop of the despised lanternfly these poems consistently challenge humanity's responses to what we consider <em>our</em> <strong>home</strong>.</p>