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Cicada Sex-Songs

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What better herald for summer than the sound of cicadas? Symbols of mortality and passion, their mysterious mating rituals and life cycle have lured the attention of poets across the world. Sap-eaters, decade-sleepers, with quivering tymbal and camouflaged body—food for some, metaphors for others. As humidity reaches its peak and the school year looms, cicada sex-songs quiver on. Presented in the pages that follow is a bouquet of poetry from writers from New England to New Zealand, dedicated to those annual songs of cicadas, sensual, sirenic, incessant, buzzing…

Cicada Sex-songs features the work of ten poets from around the world. It is one of four chapbooks dedicated to New England animals in need. This set of chapbooks invites the reader to look closer at their environment. To hold their breath and listen to the summer sounds of cicada song. To overturn logs and rocks in search of salamanders in the leaf-litter. To peer from a safe distance at the blur of legs that carry a plover along the shoreline. And to strain eyes against the dusk and spot the silhouette of a flapping bat. These poems invite others to write of their own encounters, to see our relationship with animals not as a meeting of two separate worlds, but of one world of symbiotic experiences.

Language: English

Pages: 16

Format: Chapbook

Publisher: Hawk & Whippoorwill

Release: May 01, 2020

Cicada Sex-Songs

4.5/5 ( ratings)

What better herald for summer than the sound of cicadas? Symbols of mortality and passion, their mysterious mating rituals and life cycle have lured the attention of poets across the world. Sap-eaters, decade-sleepers, with quivering tymbal and camouflaged body—food for some, metaphors for others. As humidity reaches its peak and the school year looms, cicada sex-songs quiver on. Presented in the pages that follow is a bouquet of poetry from writers from New England to New Zealand, dedicated to those annual songs of cicadas, sensual, sirenic, incessant, buzzing…

Cicada Sex-songs features the work of ten poets from around the world. It is one of four chapbooks dedicated to New England animals in need. This set of chapbooks invites the reader to look closer at their environment. To hold their breath and listen to the summer sounds of cicada song. To overturn logs and rocks in search of salamanders in the leaf-litter. To peer from a safe distance at the blur of legs that carry a plover along the shoreline. And to strain eyes against the dusk and spot the silhouette of a flapping bat. These poems invite others to write of their own encounters, to see our relationship with animals not as a meeting of two separate worlds, but of one world of symbiotic experiences.

Language: English

Pages: 16

Format: Chapbook

Publisher: Hawk & Whippoorwill

Release: May 01, 2020

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