Scorch

"In Scorch, Natalie Rice situates our sense of individual disconnection and grief within a larger ecology of loss, where nature is an active force and change is a continuous, complex cycle encompassing both the wildfire and whatever beauty may still rise out of the scorched ground. Grappling with connection and disconnection, plenitude and emptiness, Rice's poems 'lean/into what cannot be explained,' listening for the music, voicing the contradictions--'how the unsayable/hung like a red berry in the back/of my throat'" --