Pam Ore’s Grammar of the Cage is a startling first collection of poetry: lyrical in tone and language, philosophical in scope, scientific in observation, and heartbreaking in the imagery of what’s been left. These are poems of nature and ecology from a former zookeeper and, as poet Ingrid Wendt says, “a truly unique poetic voice.” Ore breaks open Nature’s physical and literary remnants, wondering who and what we are, and how language shapes and constrains our behaviors with the environment.

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