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Finalist for the Prism Prize for Climate Literature. Facing Aridity by Diana Woodcock features poems inspired by research expeditions and residencies in Alaska, the Arctic Circle, the Everglades, and southern Africa; and by fifteen years spent living in Arabia. Tinged with sorrow, they offer hope as they wring out lyrical beauty from the beleaguered yet resilient natural world. Rooted in truth, they zoom in closely on the negative effects of human activity before panning back out to celebrate earth's grand design. The poet here, serving as witness to climate change while advocating for preservation and conservation, invites readers to open themselves to earth's suffering-to global sorrow-in order to transform and be transformed.

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"Diana Woodcock holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, where her research was an inquiry into the role of poetry in the search for an environmental ethic. In 1974, she earned a B.S. degree in Psychology, and in 2004 an M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing. She has worked as a counselor with delinquent youth, an editor of a young women's magazine, and a teacher of English as a second language. For nearly eight years, she lived in Tibet, Macau, and on the Thai-Cambodian border teaching and working with refugees. Since 2004, she has been teaching creative writing, environmental literature and composition in Qatar at Virginia Commonwealth University's branch campus, VCUarts Qatar. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Tread Softly, Under the Spell of a Persian Nightingale, and Swaying on the Elephant's Shoulders (winner of the 2011 Vernice Quebodeaux International Women's Poetry Prize). Her seventh chapbook is Near the Arctic Circle (Tiger's Eye Press). Her two books forthcoming in 2021 are Facing Aridity (a finalist for the 2020 Prism Prize for Climate Literature, Homebound Publications) and Holy Sparks (Paraclete Press). A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she has had poems published in Best New Poets 2008, Women's Review of Books, Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Humanities Review, Spiritus, Comstock Review, and other journals and anthologies. Her grand prize-winning poem, ""Music as Scripture,"" was performed onstage in Lincoln Park, San Francisco by Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company at Artists Embassy International's 21st Dancing Poetry Festival."

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