Author: W.J. Herbert
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807007595
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes. A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive? Dear Specimen opens with both its speaker and her planet in peril. In “Speak to Me,” she puzzles over a millipede, as if the blue rune of its body could help her understand her impending death and the crisis her species has created. Throughout the collection, poems addressed to specimens echo the speaker’s concern and amplify her wonderment. A catalog of our climate transgressions, Dear Specimen’s final poem foretells a future in which climate refugees overrun one of our planet’s last habitable places. The collection’s lifeblood is a series of poems in which the speaker and her daughter express their concern for, and devotion to, one another. The daughter’s questions mirror the ones her mother asks of specimens: what are we meant to do with so much hazard and wonder? When the speaker hints at the climate crisis in a bedtime story she tells her grandson, we, too, feel the peril he may face. Juxtaposing a profound sense of intimacy with the vastness of geological time, the collection offers a climate-conscious critique of the human species—our search for meaning and intimacy, our capacity for greed and destruction. Dear Specimen is an extended love letter and dire warning, not only to the daughter its speaker leaves behind but to all of us.
Dear Specimen
Author: W.J. Herbert
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807007595
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes. A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive? Dear Specimen opens with both its speaker and her planet in peril. In “Speak to Me,” she puzzles over a millipede, as if the blue rune of its body could help her understand her impending death and the crisis her species has created. Throughout the collection, poems addressed to specimens echo the speaker’s concern and amplify her wonderment. A catalog of our climate transgressions, Dear Specimen’s final poem foretells a future in which climate refugees overrun one of our planet’s last habitable places. The collection’s lifeblood is a series of poems in which the speaker and her daughter express their concern for, and devotion to, one another. The daughter’s questions mirror the ones her mother asks of specimens: what are we meant to do with so much hazard and wonder? When the speaker hints at the climate crisis in a bedtime story she tells her grandson, we, too, feel the peril he may face. Juxtaposing a profound sense of intimacy with the vastness of geological time, the collection offers a climate-conscious critique of the human species—our search for meaning and intimacy, our capacity for greed and destruction. Dear Specimen is an extended love letter and dire warning, not only to the daughter its speaker leaves behind but to all of us.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807007595
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes. A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive? Dear Specimen opens with both its speaker and her planet in peril. In “Speak to Me,” she puzzles over a millipede, as if the blue rune of its body could help her understand her impending death and the crisis her species has created. Throughout the collection, poems addressed to specimens echo the speaker’s concern and amplify her wonderment. A catalog of our climate transgressions, Dear Specimen’s final poem foretells a future in which climate refugees overrun one of our planet’s last habitable places. The collection’s lifeblood is a series of poems in which the speaker and her daughter express their concern for, and devotion to, one another. The daughter’s questions mirror the ones her mother asks of specimens: what are we meant to do with so much hazard and wonder? When the speaker hints at the climate crisis in a bedtime story she tells her grandson, we, too, feel the peril he may face. Juxtaposing a profound sense of intimacy with the vastness of geological time, the collection offers a climate-conscious critique of the human species—our search for meaning and intimacy, our capacity for greed and destruction. Dear Specimen is an extended love letter and dire warning, not only to the daughter its speaker leaves behind but to all of us.
Dear Specimen
Author: W.J. Herbert
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807007609
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes. A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive? Dear Specimen opens with both its speaker and her planet in peril. In “Speak to Me,” she puzzles over a millipede, as if the blue rune of its body could help her understand her impending death and the crisis her species has created. Throughout the collection, poems addressed to specimens echo the speaker’s concern and amplify her wonderment. A catalog of our climate transgressions, Dear Specimen’s final poem foretells a future in which climate refugees overrun one of our planet’s last habitable places. The collection’s lifeblood is a series of poems in which the speaker and her daughter express their concern for, and devotion to, one another. The daughter’s questions mirror the ones her mother asks of specimens: what are we meant to do with so much hazard and wonder? When the speaker hints at the climate crisis in a bedtime story she tells her grandson, we, too, feel the peril he may face. Juxtaposing a profound sense of intimacy with the vastness of geological time, the collection offers a climate-conscious critique of the human species—our search for meaning and intimacy, our capacity for greed and destruction. Dear Specimen is an extended love letter and dire warning, not only to the daughter its speaker leaves behind but to all of us.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807007609
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes. A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive? Dear Specimen opens with both its speaker and her planet in peril. In “Speak to Me,” she puzzles over a millipede, as if the blue rune of its body could help her understand her impending death and the crisis her species has created. Throughout the collection, poems addressed to specimens echo the speaker’s concern and amplify her wonderment. A catalog of our climate transgressions, Dear Specimen’s final poem foretells a future in which climate refugees overrun one of our planet’s last habitable places. The collection’s lifeblood is a series of poems in which the speaker and her daughter express their concern for, and devotion to, one another. The daughter’s questions mirror the ones her mother asks of specimens: what are we meant to do with so much hazard and wonder? When the speaker hints at the climate crisis in a bedtime story she tells her grandson, we, too, feel the peril he may face. Juxtaposing a profound sense of intimacy with the vastness of geological time, the collection offers a climate-conscious critique of the human species—our search for meaning and intimacy, our capacity for greed and destruction. Dear Specimen is an extended love letter and dire warning, not only to the daughter its speaker leaves behind but to all of us.
Specimens
Author: Norwood Press
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Novels of Charles Lever: The Martins of Cro' Martin; with illus. by Phiz
Author: Charles Lever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Novels of Charles Lever
Author: Charles Lever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Novels of Charles Lever: The Martins of Cro'Martin
Author: Charles Lever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees ... Together with the Report of the Curator to the Committee on the Museum
Author: Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Report
Author: Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Business Communication
Author: VK Jain | Omprakash Biyani
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
ISBN: 8121928702
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
For B.Com., BCA, BBA, MBA and as per the UGC Model Curriculum.
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
ISBN: 8121928702
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
For B.Com., BCA, BBA, MBA and as per the UGC Model Curriculum.
My Novel, Or, Varieties in English Life
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher: London : Routledge
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher: London : Routledge
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description