Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota by Amelia Gorman

John Philip Johnson, Pushcart Prize-winning science fiction writer and poet This is a clever and enjoyable chapbook that captures the mood of how our lives are invaded by change.” It never occurred to me to write a dystopian book about the horror and alienation these things caused. Then some hideous things called Zebra Mussels showed up in the water and somehow seemed to ruin everything. Minnesota was my happy summer home for decades. “This good book by Amelia Gorman really struck a nerve.

Julie Reeser, author of Beak, Full of Tongue and Terracotta PomegranateĪ sneak-peek at the design for Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota is a thorned and exciting imagining where each specimen is handled as if by a daring and sun-smeared trickster, the delight in getting muddy and making up stories proudly prominent, and a refreshing pleasure in a collection of nature poetry.” “A thoughtful and intelligent collection of one-page poems and elegant illustrations that slowly bud from gentle cricket song into a poison-leafed and weedy future. I want to wrestle with some of these poems until they yield meaning, but they dance, just out of reach, evanescent and tantalizing.” “A delicate blend of ecological awareness and mythological sensibility, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota lures the reader in with a semblance of clarity and rationality, and then tips you into a complex surreal world that resembles ours - it is ours - but is also not. Here’s some early praise for this little book of illustrated poems: After all, the biggest ecological danger of invasive species is the monoculture they create. Take a walk through the woods of Minnesota, past the Salton Sea, into the high grass of the prairie, beyond the rivers and creekbeds, into a world of the near-future where nature rules all. Gorman’s Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota is a poetic journey into the strange and wonderful world known previously only to the wild. Interstellar Flight Press is pleased to announce the publication of our latest chapbook, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota by Amelia Gorman, now available for pre-order and on NetGalley (pub date: September 6, 2021). Cover art for FIeld Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota (Interstellar Flight Press, September 6, 2021)