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Practical Water by Brenda Hillman

samwreads's review against another edition

3.0

Often-times beautiful, but highly inconsistent poetry that blends nature and observations of the natural world with activism and ecological politics. It's fascinating more than anything else, how much variation in voice and purpose there is within this collection. The book has an epigraph from David Hume, which says "Water, whatever it communicates, always remains at a level," and I can't help but be amused by the irony when this highly variable collection is, as much as anything, a call to action, using skew lines of thought and voice to lever or channel the soul to motion.