Asked What Has Changed

A Black ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise window, “ ever alert to affinities between the small and the vast, the fleeting and the cosmic” (James Gibbons,  Hyperallergic ). Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poetry’s orbit what the physical and human sciences