Money Money Money | Water Water Water
A striking combination of the spiritual and political, Money Money Money | Water Water Water explores the enormous impact that widespread environmental destruction makes on our way of life. With prophetic disquietude, Jane Mead's inquiry into the interconnectedness of our choices exposes our existence as paradox. Her poems beseech us to consider the consequences of our collective actions on the planet.
Some Praise Money Money Money | Water Water Water:
“Despite its concern with the environment, the most fundamental and interesting preoccupation of Money Money Money | Water Water Water may be with the kind of darkness that grows not from the outside but from within”
— West Branch
“Jane Mead’s mission is to rescue—to search and rescue; and the mind, above all, does the work. She says—twice—in one poem that “the mind gives over its small grave of secrets.” She is searching for the “sentence written in stone—far enough back so the water can’t get it.” Her poems are a beautiful search for liberation and rebirth. I praise them to the sky.”
— Gerald Stern
“Money Money Money | Water Water Water offers us both a voice and an undervoice, and the tension between them achieves a loose-limbed elegance—whatever once had to be built can now be simply uttered, trusting the words to be as eternal—or more so—than the world we pass through. I feel utterly transported in Mead’s presence, surrounded by—and imbued in—her language.”