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SOFAR
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In SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield attends to our current ecological and historic moment, her decades-long queer love, a lifetime of work on boats, and her body's shifting currents with wry yearning and linguistic delight. SOFAR is an acronym for the "sound frequency and ranging channel," a...
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In SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, one of our most important writers on the natural (especially the maritime) world, explores her longtime queer love, her midlife body, and a lifetime working on the water with wit, yearning, and linguistic delight.
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Description
In SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield attends to our current ecological and historic moment, her decades-long queer love, a lifetime of work on boats, and her body's shifting currents with wry yearning and linguistic delight.
SOFAR is an acronym for the "sound frequency and ranging channel," a deep layer of oceanic water that enables sound to travel vast distances. Drawing upon her deep knowledge and experience of the sea, Bradfield explores what can be heard by listening across the vast distances of our lives—within our memories and larger histories, between strangers and beloveds, and towards the more-than-human world.
Bradfield's work as a naturalist gives an earned intimacy and nuanced authority to her eco-grief, field observations, and metaphoric leaps as she regards whales, cusk eels, and storm petrels. These are the poems of a woman unafraid of navigating the depths and rip currents she moves through.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780892556182
Publisher: Persea Books Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 August 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Persea Books Inc
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 175g
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About the Author
Writer/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work, and Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. She has co-edited the anthologies Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005-2020 (with Alexandra Teague and Miller Oberman) and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology and Poetry (with CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Sun, New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Orion and have been widely anthologized. Winner of the Audre Lorde Prize from the Publishing Triangle, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, her honors also include a Stegner Fellowship and a Bread Loaf Scholarship. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided, she lives on Cape Cod, teaches creative writing at Brandeis University, and balances her work as a writer with work as a naturalist/field assistant at home and afar.
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