Pin Bones: Poems, (Paperback)

<b>What does it mean to care for something you cannot save?</b> <p>In the wake of personal loss and disrupted dreams, and amid the global uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, a poet arrives at a small land-based fish farm. There, she learns to do everything: spawning fish, picking eggs, feeding and tending fry, alevins, finger-length trout, Arctic char, and full-grown fish; cleaning tanks and raceways; harvesting what she has helped raise. </p><p>As the seasons turn, the farm reshapes the poet's sense of time. Life and death are no longer abstract concepts but daily companions--counted, measured, held, and released. Through sustained attention to the rhythms of animal husbandry, <i>Pin Bones</i> explores care as both devotion and limitation. </p><p>Written in grounded language, these poems move in quiet conversation with the visions of the English mystic Julian of Norwich, circling a central, urgent question: <b>Would you still love the world, knowing you could not protect it?</b> Layered imagery accumulates across the collection, offering new ways of seeing what we nurture, what we destroy, and what we are called to love anyway. <i>Pin Bones</i> will resonate with readers of nature poetry, mystic writing, and those engaged with conservation, farming, and the ethics of care.</p>

• Pin Bones: Poems, (Paperback)
• Author: Maaike VanderMeer
• ISBN: 9781771684934
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-04-06
• Page Count: 96