Crater & Tower
By Cheryl J. Fish
Duck Lake Books, 2020
Eco-poetics examining change and trauma. What can we learn from the volcanic eruption at Mount St. Helens in 1980, and the terrorist attack of 9-11-01 on the World Trade Center?
"Cheryl J. Fish’s Crater & Tower is a work of inspired research and engaged imagination. Fish creates a “multi-verse,” spanning natural and human-made disasters, the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. She advises, ‘Listen better. Listen more.’ Crater & Tower is a compelling testament to the vital act of listening as Fish attests to both devastation and renewal. “What you can’t fathom finds you,” she warns. She excavates personal, political, and ecological circumstances to enrich our perspectives and fathom new meaning."
– Lee Upton, author of Visitations: Stories and Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles: Poems
Two Poems from Crater & Tower on Mom Egg Review