Author Description

Celebration as invitation: it’s a pattern that recurs throughout exhalations, as when the speaker in “first light” celebrates his infant daughter’s first time to hear “songs // of morning birds /drown out // the rocking chair’s / creak.” Through such intimate celebrations, Aaron M. Moe invites the reader also to register, above the creaking of our machines, a more ultimate singing. —H. L. Hix Spare and sinewy, these poems are like origami, “a cosmic breath / folded within a mere Syllable.” They unfold into birdsong and bark scent and the Mandelbrot set and bright murmurations, a glorious exploration of humanhood and parenthood and returning home to our planet, to ourselves. —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of hush and Naked for Tea ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Aaron M. Moe (PhD, Washington State University) is the author of two scholarly books—Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus (2019) and Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry (2014)—as well as several chapters and articles on ecopoetics / zoopoetics. In 2015, he published a leaflet of aphorisms, Protean Poetics. His creative work can also be found in Counterclaims: Poets and Poetries, Talking Back (2020) and is forthcoming in the projects The Mountain: An Anthology of Mountain Poemsand The Despairimentalist Manifesto. His family lives in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies where they hike, climb, run trails, and write.