Near-Earth Object Author|Annetta Sanow Sutton Born in Saudi Arabia to

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Constellarium is a book like no other ingenious and wide ranging

yet doesn't resolve to abandon us in this bold collection

in deceptively simple phrases

Near-Earth Object Author|Annetta Sanow Sutton Born in Saudi Arabia toIn 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