Eryn Green Bücher

Eryn Green's new poetry collection is a lyrical exploration of home and its connections to love, attachment, and loss. Drawing on the Hebrew letter Bet, the root of the word for home, the work delves into the interplay between internal and external realms of poetic expression and spiritual existence. The poems address a wide range of themes inherent to home—family, romance, protection, loss, tenderness, fear of violence, and our place in nature—while posing critical questions about how attentive, poetic care can enhance our understanding of shared spaces. The collection contemplates the relationship between the microcosm of home and the macrocosmic physical world, examining the role of language in connecting the self, spirit, others, and the planet. It seeks to understand how poetry can help us cope with the grief of losing loved ones and cherished spaces in a world marked by inevitable change. BEIT investigates the potential expansiveness and permeability of home, uncovering the intricate universes that exist within its boundaries. With an ecocritical lens, the collection reflects on landscapes that both extend and encroach upon the self and the world, particularly the desert, grounding its observations in the earth while gazing toward the heavens.