Martin, Lynn: Shiver

Shiver by Lynn Martin (Tender Buttons Press, paperback)

Publication Date: August 1, 2019

Publisher Marketing: Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Lynn Martin's wild embodiment of landscape are here published posthumously. Like the scorpions and Appalachian mountains very much alive in these poems, Martin's work announces a new magical understanding of the spirits present in our daily environments through an unrelenting generosity towards the simple and "known unknowns" of the universe.

"SHIVER sings of a profound and precise recognition of dirt as prayer. Like a sped-up Niedecker, Martin s silence between threats is a lush, heartful yet spare open invitation to regard fish as seeds and cabins as husks for handmade dwelling. Her language plows through and strips debris littering the Blue Ridge Mountains of the everyday. And in this way, nature is truth as in how a one-room school house becomes its own entire universe almost like Whitman swollen with his multitudes. Martin's deep breath and echoing rhythms restore and return us to our earth-water-sky-filled selves and we are lucky. Get on board with this moaning, murmurous, hullabalooing wild poetry of place."--giovanni singleton