We Have to Leave the Earth by Carolyn Jess-Cooke Jay G Ying One hundred years since the

One hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War

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The poet in this new collection is at once removed from and immersed in the terrain of his examination

We Have to Leave the Earth by Carolyn Jess-Cooke Jay G Ying One hundred years since theCarolyn Jess Cookes new poetry collection is both keenly political and deeply personal. The opening poem now features a seemingly peaceful domestic scene of a family lounging at home as the starting point for meditation on history, time, mortality and the fate of the planet: I think of what tomorrow asks and what is yet to be done and undone, how many nows make up a life and what is living. There are hints of a struggle with depression stemming from a