Soft Targets by Deborah Landau Grace Nichols Sometimes a Single Leaf

Sometimes a Single Leaf

self-nominated President of Planet Earth

but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle

With characteristic variety

Also includes manifestos and interviews

Soft Targets by Deborah Landau Grace Nichols Sometimes a Single LeafDeborah Landaus fourth book of poetry, Soft Targets, draws a bulls eye on humanitys vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an endangered planet on which all inhabitants are soft targets. Her melancholic examinations recall lifes uncanny ability to transform ordinary places subways, cafs, street corners into sites of intense significance that weigh heavily on the modern