In “Veer,” her 20th poetry collection, Bay Area native Cole Swensen reimagines everyday life through unexpected and often playful shifts in perspective. She invites readers to reconsider the boundaries between humans and nature in poems that suggest that people, animals, plants and inanimate matter are part of the same interconnected process of living. Swensen, whose previous titles include 2023’s “And And And” and 2021’s “Art in […]