DEAR READER, DEAR UNDERTOW /February 7, 2023 by Meredith Stricker

DEAR READER, DEAR UNDERTOW

from YOU BROKE MY HEART, in REWILD

MEREDITH STRICKER is an artist and poet working in cross-genre media. She is the author of seven poetry collections and recipient of the National Poetry Series Award. Her most recent book, Sentience is forthcoming from Omnidawn Press. Rewild, a recent collection won the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize. She co-directs poetics and space a collaborative focusing on architecture in Big Sur and projects to bring together artists, writers, musicians and experimental forms.

REWILD is a collection of documentary lyric poetry that explores places that have been ravaged by war and environ-mental plunder, then left alone from human interference to regenerate and restore. The poems envision ways we might begin to unbuy ourselves, to rewild our communal lives.

My hope is for poetry to give full voice and place to the displaced, undocumented and endangered.

Poems are not decoration, they are not static. They are here to change our lives.