# The Seeds - Paperback

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by **Cecily Parks** (Author)

**_The Seeds_ confronts the ecological paradox of homemaking in an environment domesticity rejects--one of mess, disease, and everyday violence--to explore the equal distress and delight entangled in caring for a family, a new home, and the earth that sustains them.**

  

Cecily Parks draws on literary sources ranging from nursery rhymes to _The Odyssey_ to examine how we form relationships with the natural world. The lessons of these poems are in processes that underscore humanity's power to alter nature and powerlessness to control it: an epiphyte's fall from a live oak, an urban creek's response to drought, or a roof rat's nest-building in the attic of the poet's home. Motherhood positions the speaker to revisit her girlhood relation to the earth, and as her two young daughters exemplify the ease with which children can become nature's intimates, the speaker must confront the ecological disturbances that arise from her own attempts to prevent upset to the garden through aggression by weeds, animals, and weather.

  

_The Seeds_ deconstructs what it means to love nature, especially when the natural world challenges our desires for beauty, abundance, and safety. Looking to more-than-human guides with an open mind and heart, Parks' third book is a collection of unconventional contemporary environmental histories, in which places become biological and emotional primers for those who will inherit them.

### Author Biography

**Cecily Parks** is the editor of the anthology _The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses,_ and the author of three poetry collections, including most recently _The Seeds,_ which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Her poems appear in venues such as _The New Yorker, A Public Space, the New Republic,_ and _Best American Poetry._ She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and lives in Austin, Texas.

**Number of Pages:** 100

**Dimensions:** 0.32 x 8.82 x 5.83 IN

**Publication Date:** October 14, 2025

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