Woodland Social Practice Obtuse Diary

Obtuse Diary

Melinda Mueller

She finally settled in Italy after the war

La Libellula (The Dragonfly) is Amelia Rosselli’s acknowledged first major work and contains all the elements of her mature vision: trilingual wordplay

I have always thought of the poet Aaron Shurin as a kind of elder brother rather than an elder per se

Woodland Social Practice Obtuse DiaryFinalist for the 2020 CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry Started during the early season fires of 2017 in British Columbia, written that burning year, and finished as the Camp Fire obliterated Paradise, California, the poems and music of Woodland blaze with anger. Broken and obsessive, lathing logging terminology and archaisms, the poems ricochet around the new reality of endless fires as the Climate Catastrophe unfolds and lover & spruce rise up the