We Come Elemental

2014 Green Book Festival – Poetry Runner-Up 26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist “The poems in Tamiko Beyer’s We Come Elemental. . . float together, each buoyant image sinking at a different speed into the same ocean. These are environmental poems, but not pastoral; we don’t see the traditional imagery of untouched meadows or flowing springs, instead, Beyer gives us pollution and unease. This sense of destruction flows through the collection is Beyer’s way of heightening our awareness [of] environmental destruction.” —Poets at Work “Tamiko Beyer’s collection of poems, We Come Elemental,…