Earthbound

In her eighteenth poetry book Prinnie McCourt vents her frustration on the fact dinosaurs could fly, while humans are still Earthbound. She also celebrates her Border Collie's life; and explores our relationships with guns and robots. She also recalls her first computer lesson in the early 90's. Prinnie lives in the Chihuahuan desert in New Mexico, close to the Mexican border, so her subjects range from an injured vulture, a determined turtle, a spider that creates suspension bridges, to a "Kaleidoscope of Butterflies", and her experience "walking with stones". Prinnie even includes the time she disarmed a Mexican soldier. She also confesses to her terror of the daily news.