Loosestrife for Porcupines

Finalist, 2025 Blue Light Book Award

"Loosestrife for Porcupines is a beautifully crafted reflection of the intimacies of the natural world. Here, fiddler crabs raise their machine-gun claws like tiny gangsters. Named and nameless winds begin to stir. Balanced against these appreciations come listable sorrows, from the swollen oceans and the albino crows of Chernobyl to stars disappearing over the shifting bones of an aging planet. Inevitably, Gordon turns to us and asks, without judgement or malice, have we been wise? Craving joy, keenly insightful as they are compassionate, these stunning poems-both individually and collectively-are a timely and necessary gift."