Tethering World, Kent State University Press
“Jody Rambo’s first book of poetry, Tethering World, is lyrical, tactile, and transcendent—in a word, enthralling. The very texture embodies a personal way of seeing and saying, as does the extraordinary range of circumstances. There is a beguiling strangeness to the writing, and philosophical smarts to boot. ‘I am weatherly,’ says the speaker in Tethering World, and she truly is, singularly so. This book is poetry top to bottom.” —Marvin Bell
“Pitched between Emily Dickinson’s ‘Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?’ and William Blake’s ‘I want! I want!,’ Jody Rambo’s Tethering World offers an elegant, somatic pastoral, a ‘weatherly’ sensibility that forges the post-Lapsarian realm of loss and desire into an alchemical mix of rue, awe, beauty, and change—what John Keats called a ‘vale of soul-making.’ Intelligent, prescient, eloquent, Rambo’s tethering of poems compels us to inherit its manifold, exquisitely wrought linguistic ravishments, its vision.” —Lisa Russ Spaar
Purchase a copy here.
after Hiroshima: an elegy in four poems
“Aubade with Sky of Birds in Flight on Fire”
“Prayer”
“Brothers in the Aftermath”
“Elegy in Which the Children Were Dreaming”*
The Response Project: 30th Annual Westheimer Peace Symposium,
Peace Resource Center, Barbara Reynolds Memorial Archive, Wilmington College, October 1-2, 2020
*reprinted by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, The 2022 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards
“This fall’s 30th edition of the Westheimer Peace Symposium at Wilmington College will include a multimedia commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing in World War II. The 2020 theme is ‘Peace and the Nature of War’ with a focus on nuclear war and the first use of nuclear weapons. Artists representing genres ranging from music and two-dimensional art to filmmaking and poetry will respond to something they experienced while visiting the Peace Resource Center (PRC) at Wilmington College this winter or spring. It could be a photograph they see, a document they read, an audio recording they hear or even an overarching theme they sense while discovering the PRC’s collection.”
2/3/2020 Wilmington News Journal.
The full livestream recording of The Response Project is available here.