The Green Lake

An unflinching poetry collection, The Green Lake presents an apocalyptic future where the descent into irreversible climate change leaves us submerged in a world of terror and awe. Influenced by Romantic poets like William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley, renowned poet Dorothea Lasky looks sharply at a world where even beauty is ravaged by greed. Recalling the notion that such beauty could save the world from its own destruction, Lasky presents love as something endless that also must work tirelessly against the enormous flow of destruction. Aware that these issues exist at the brink of human understanding, Lasky resorts to poetry, the vital force that bridges the gap between the spoken and unspoken, a space where ideas run free in the wide chasm of the sublime. The Green Lake is at once frightening and inspiring, urging us to dream of a new world in the face of unimaginable destruction.