The Place One Is

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By Martha Ronk

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The Place One Is by Martha Ronk is a poignant collection of poems delving into the intricate relationship between the individual, the body, and their surroundings. Through vivid imagery, Ronk explores how shifts in the physical environment—rural landscapes transitioning to the bright urban sprawl of Los Angeles—reshape perception, posture, language, and concerns, such as California's diminishing water reserves. The work powerfully illustrates the blending and interdependence of body and world, revealing how natural and human elements mirror one another in their processes of change and decay.
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This collection will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry, environmental themes, and the intersections of identity and place. It appeals to those who appreciate reflective, visionary explorations of the natural world and urban experiences through poetic form.

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A collection from celebrated poet Martha Ronk considering the relationship between person, body, and place.

The Place One Is explores the intersection of person and place, the ways in which changes in the tangible world alter one’s vision, bodily posture, vocabulary, and concern for—to take one example—the dwindling water supply in California. The body’s position, its geometry, and the topography of the surrounding land become less and less recognisable as body and world blend together. Gravel giving way underfoot mirrors the way that words dissolve into mumbles, and the skeleton of a rusty car on the sand appears like one’s own skeleton. Ronk shows that disintegration here is disintegration there.

These poems also wonder at interdependence, considering how lines intersect and continue to connect us to the sea—and to islands, lagoons, greenery, sky, and space.

In the first part of the collection, the poems focus on a rural landscape, and in the second part, they consider the overly bright urban world of Los Angeles.

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Critics praise Ronk's work for its visionary approach and profound exploration of interconnectedness. Publishers Weekly highlights how the poems unflinchingly examine humanity's future by showing the unity of human, water, land, and political bodies. Gillian Conoley commends Ronk's exquisite ability to capture fleeting, porous realities and compares her vision of California to a reflection of the wider world and universe. The collection is noted for its thoughtful inquiry into the permeability between subject and object, body and environment.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632431035

Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Omnidawn Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 122g

Pages: 64

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Arts & Culture Martha Ronk Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Martha Ronk is the author of twelve books of poetry and one book of short stories, Glass Grapes. Her poetry books include Silences, Ocular Proof, Transfer of Qualities (longlisted for the National Book Award), Vertigo, Partially Kept, and in a landscape of having to repeat. Her work has been included in the anthologies Lyric Postmodernisms, American Hybrid, Not for Mothers Only, and most recently in North American Women Poets in the 21st Century. She is the emeritus Irma and Jay Price Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles.