This Household of Earthly Nature by Cody-Rose Clevidence

This Household of Earthly Nature

by Cody-Rose Clevidence

Praise for This Household of Earthly Nature

Dear Reader, prepare thyself to burst. This Household of Earthly Nature is a hard-won, grief-sown celebration. This is our emergency: “the crush of angels…the electric hymnal of the night.” In language such as this, the world as we encounter it appears too beautiful and full of grief, too irreversible and headlong bearing down to think and feel beyond the incandescent limits of our attention. Part paean to the fact-lit materia of creation, part elegiac song of loss, the single poem that is this book unfolds as a kind of spiral litany, a keeping track of things at once in deep relation and beset upon by cosmic loneliness. Here, for you, are the stark occurrences of a writer’s earth-bent wrack-line vision.

—Nick Gulig, poet laureate of Wisconsin 

Cody-Rose Clevidence demonstrates, in a sprawling network of erudition that is itself a materialist testament to ordinary beauty and an experimental synthesis of poetry and science, that knowledge is remediated half and afterlives, that nature is as we have done, and love, that invisible force that truly connects us, by necessity coagulates with information, infrastructure, instantaneity, and other ineluctable lows that humanity won’t be here much longer to witness. This Household of Earthly Nature’s anti-prescriptivist contradiction, and generative genius, is that its operations it no other model than Clevidence’s own anarchic making, one which would share and encompass everything we’ve ever made.

 —Alicia Wright 

Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of The Grimace of Eden Now, Aux Arc / Trypt Ich, Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night, Flung/Throne, and BEAST FEAST, as well as several chapbooks. They live in the Arkansas Ozarks and are occasionally a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop.

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