In Sea Change, Jorie Graham brings us to the once-unimaginable threshold at which civilization as we know it becomes unsustainable. How might the human spirit persist, caught between its abiding love of beauty, its acknowledgment of continuing injury and damage done, and the realization that the existence of a “future” itself may no loner be assured?

In addition to her recognized achievements as a poet of philosophical, aesthetic, and moral concerns, Graham has also been acknowledged as “our most formidable nature poet” (Publishers Weekly). As gorgeous and inventive as anything she has written, Sea Change is an essential work speaking out for our planet and the world we have known.