For the Future

Description

Daniel Corrie's sonically rich, incantatory poetry embodies large concerns, fullness of the imagination, mindfulness of the world's details, vividness of image and metaphor, clarity of expression, elegance of craft.

William Wright wrote in Shenandoah," Daniel Corrie is a poet whose two thematic obsessions are time and our human place in our humanly threatened natural world. Corrie's poetry is deeply imagined, painstakingly crafted, lucidly essentialized and large . . . His poetry enters the frontiers of our collective search to understand and adapt emotionally to the human-driven crises threatening our biosphere's life support systems and living beauty."

Corrie's poetry savors the natural world's details. Too, his poetry captures our awakening to the great threats to our world's anciently evolved beauty and abundance. In Corrie's poetry, such realities as climate change and species extinction are not presented didactically. As Corrie commented in an interview (Town Creek Poetry), "Such art doesn't have to be propaganda. Our dreamlife isn't didactic, but it affects us profoundly. I think art can work like that."

Corrie and his wife live on their farm in rural Georgia where they carry out ecological restoration of longleaf pines and native understory.