Land Sparing - Softcover

"There's a bit of the mathematician wandering the spare landscapes of Gabriella Klein's debut volume of poetry, Land Sparing--and of the scientist, and of the cartographer, too. It's in the precision of the diction, and it's in the etched density of the syntax. Even the 'colorless light' of oblivion--'Earth, / you are a ghost maker'--gets nailed down."--Ralph Angel "The poems in Land Sparing seem to issue from a remnant species of startling, heartbreaking intelligence. 'Earth, / your love spells me. I will rake the path clean.' Remote, at once clear and inscrutable, they signal a loneliness that is planetary in scope. As she shifts registers, Gabriella Klein echolocates us without fail in her exquisite end time."--Joy Gladding

In a series of poems quiet but savage - in the many senses of that word - Gabriella Klein lays bare the prospects of an individual in times of ecological disaster and personal and political upheaval. These poems are gyroscopic, telescopic, microscopic. Insects and universes each are as grand and intimate as the other. The star, the forest, mud, a daughter, the Chinook wind, a honeybee, the sea - they all have as much agency and presence in this work as the poet/speaker herself.