Swerve: Poems on Environmentalism Feminism and Resistance

One of the best Environmentalism books of all time - BookAuthority Best New Light eBooksThe late W. S. Merwin said Akerss nature poems are a joy to discover because they embody a lost sense of the living world. In Swerve Akers celebrates the wild while facing climate change extinction and loss. These poems confront us with the many threats to our world eventually guiding us through stages of grief towards hope and action.The poems in Swerve give voice to the shock fear and desperation many feel about the environment. They meditate on the beauty of the non-human world. They champion women in the #MeToo movement who are empowering themselves and making vital changes.Powerful and compassionate Swerve is ultimately a call to activism inspiring readers to swerve and demand a better world. Ellery Akers is the author of three books of poetry. Her most recent collection is Swerve: Environmentalism Feminism and Resistance (Blue Light Press 2020). She is also the author of Practicing the Truth (Autumn House 2015) winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize the San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award and an Independent Publisher Book Award for Poetry; Knocking on the Earth (Wesleyan University Press 1988) named a Best Book of the Year by the San Jose Mercury News; and Sarahs Waterfall (Safer Society Press 2009) a childrens novel.