still around / astonished

The Time of the Earth is the last in Jaspreet Singh’s “Still Astonished” trilogy, following How to Hold a Pebble and Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock.

Investigating the emotional and existential registers of inner life in this epoch informally named the anthropocene, The Time of the Earth writes alongside air, water, language, and memory: inseparable ecologies that humanity attempts to segregate at its peril. In our bones and our unconscious lurk atmospheric, hydrospheric, lithospheric, and biospheric entanglements, our “nature” commingling with the “natures” of other species, and the poems in this book see and sing these relationships with a clarity at once reflective and urgent, grieving and playful. Jaspreet Singh’s The Time of the Earth is a meditation on wonder as a method of survival, grounded in deepening awareness of the Earth’s system.