Near-Earth Object Author|Annetta Sanow Sutton Cloud State University

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not only for women

as they find within themselves unknown reservoirs of strength

in deceptively simple phrases

Near-Earth Object Author|Annetta Sanow Sutton Cloud State UniversityIn the poems of Near Earth Object, John Shoptaw explores the interactions, sometimes dark and sometimes joyful, between humans and the non human natural world. Resisting the human exceptionalism that in its many forms blocks our imaginative access to the world, Shoptaw entertains the perspectives of a host of others: a cricket, a bat, a nuthatch, a carnival bear, a tree's shade, cherubim, an asteroid, and in the long poem "Whoa!" (an allegory of