God's Green Earth

By Noelle Kocot

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• The poems of Noelle Kocot's latest collection are ones of acute astonishment, tracking the intense spiritual and ecstatic elements that pervade the everyday world, the "fine surges of torrential / Probabilities" amid the "flotsam strewn under this compromised / Heaven." Bleak yet full of glory, these poems are a quest that showcase a poet at her visionary and poetic heights, where every turn of line, every sudden appearance, is one to arrest our attention and thought.

• At once modest and resplendent, this is a profound affirmation of poetic necessity.
  starred review from Publishers Weekly

  In the meantime, we still have this world to contend with, the “green earth” of the book’s title, which is God’s, sure, but also ours: a world of much suffering and loss, but also of music, radio, cats, trees, and each other.
  Justin Taylor, Poetry Foundation

  God's Green Earth has a wonderful ability to soothe and slow its readers, offering a silent plenitude of spirit and luxuriating in depictions of solitude.
  Stephanie Sy-Quia, The White Review