Near-Earth Object Author|Annetta Sanow Sutton Born in Saudi Arabia to

Born in Saudi Arabia to undocumented

yet doesn't resolve to abandon us in this bold collection

Constellarium is a book like no other ingenious and wide ranging

and later taught Head Start for many years

was reviewed in publications including the Boston Globe

Near-Earth Object Author|Annetta Sanow Sutton Born in Saudi Arabia toIn the poems of Near Earth Object, John Shoptaw explores the interactions, sometimes dark and sometimes joyful, between humans and the non human natural world. Resisting the human exceptionalism that in its many forms blocks our imaginative access to the world, Shoptaw entertains the perspectives of a host of others: a cricket, a bat, a nuthatch, a carnival bear, a tree's shade, cherubim, an asteroid, and in the long poem "Whoa!" (an allegory of