Whittier College Professor Tess Taylor's latest review on Jynne Dilling Martin's poetry collection, We Mammals in Hospitable Times aired on NPR this week.
Last year, author Jynne Dilling Martin spent six weeks, funded by the National Science Foundation, living in Antarctica. She spent the summer (winter, to those of us in the Northern Hemisphere) shadowing scientists as they went about their work, and writing about the people who call the icy continent home. Out of that project emerged many of the poems in her new collection, We Mammals In Hospitable Times.
"For Martin, our geologic window is brief and fleeting and presses in on the margins of each poem, said Taylor in her review. "So Martin reminds us while we're here we feel and watch and project our human longing onto the myriad worlds around us."
A professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College, Taylor's work has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Times Literary Supplement among others.
Listen to the story that aired in NPR's All Things Considered.
