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Dawn Chorus / Alice Pettway

Dawn Chorus

By: Alice Pettway

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Like the burgeoning sounds of morning from which Dawn Chorus takes its name, these poems emerge from the darkness of urban isolation into brilliant wilderness. More than half of the world’s humans now live in cities, waking to the rhythm of artificial light, lulled by the hum of machines. We sense that some important part of us has atrophied but cannot name it. Dawn Chorus is a warning and a celebration. Pettway’...
ISBN 978-1-915022-35-6
Pub Date Saturday, April 08, 2023
Page Count 66
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Like the burgeoning sounds of morning from which Dawn Chorus takes its name, these poems emerge from the darkness of urban isolation into brilliant wilderness. More than half of the world’s humans now live in cities, waking to the rhythm of artificial light, lulled by the hum of machines. We sense that some important part of us has atrophied but cannot name it. Dawn Chorus is a warning and a celebration. Pettway’s lines remind us how deeply we harm ourselves when we turn away from nature and invite us to revel in the rediscovery of our wildest selves.


“The Alice Pettway of Dawn Chorus is an urban fabulist and pastoral realist—a modern-day Arcimboldo who rebuilds herself repeatedly in these poems, at the fulcrum between outworn civilization and fragile wilderness. Dawn Chorus is an escape from denial: it refuses to be cut off any longer. Even as the city shapes these poems, nature sings its way back to the foreground. Without merganser and yarrow, without a rebalancing, we’re undone.”
William Pierce
co-editor, AGNI



“These poems allow us to inhale the aroma of Alaska's shores, its wild iris buds, the intricacy of each stone upon stone, and we can feel Pettway's interaction intensify with every moose skull, cottonwood tree, and merganser duck”
Paul B. Roth
author of Moments in Place



“These beautiful poems will uplift you with their engaging story and their marvelous craft.”  
John Morgan
author of The Hungers of the World:
New and Selected Later Poems

Alice Pettway

ALICE PETTWAY is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger, Moth and Station Lights. Her work has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, AGNI, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and many other respected journals. Pettway is a former Chulitna Artist and Lily Peter fellow. She currently lives near Seattle, Washington.

Author Photo: Una Zhu

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