Reck means to pay attention to, to be concerned by. Ranging from colony collapse to the moon, from the plague to the pandemic, Reck asks what it means to live and to love in the face of climate change and and other cataclysms small and large.
Leslie Harrison is the author of two previous books, Displacement (Mariner, 2009), which won the Bakeless prize in poetry, selected by Eavan Boland, and The Book of Endings (Akron, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry and a Mary Sawyers Baker artist award. She is a displaced New Englander who lives and works in Baltimore.
