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.
Dear Specimen
Specimens
Author: Norwood Press
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Publisher:
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Organization of Small Libraries
Author: Agnes Wallace
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Why Men do not believe; or, the principal causes of Infidelity. [Translated from the French by X. Y. Z.]
Author: Nicolas Joseph LAFORET
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Specimens, Book Types, J.S. Cushing & Company
Author: Norwood Press
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Bulletin
Author: United States National Museum
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;
Author: John Nichols
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John Nichols
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110807412X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
This nine-volume work, published 1812-15, provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110807412X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
This nine-volume work, published 1812-15, provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During Thelast Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artist; with a Very Copious Index. By John Nichols ... In Six Volumes. Volume 1. [- 9.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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