Against Silence: Poems the microbiome-the microorganisms that live

the microbiome-the microorganisms that live inside us-communicate with one another

Unseen University

and republished Leaves of Grass

Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values

winner of the Carnegie Medal

Against Silence: Poems the microbiome-the microorganisms that liveAn urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and one of the undisputed master poets of our time (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR)Words, voices reek of the worlds from which they emerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable aroma, its parameters, limitations, promise. Wordsthere is a gap, nonetheless always and forever, between words and the world slip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish. Set up a