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Welcome to the Anthropocene /
Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--"Where do we fit in the universe?"--Is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, Alberta :
University of Alberta Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Robert Kroetsch series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Prologue; In medias res; Welcome to the Anthropocene; Welcome to the Anthropocene; The local globe; Windfall advisory; There goes the neighbourhood; Guardians of Eden; Privacy acts; Bird singularities; Dust to dust; Annual grains; Demeter waits at the arrivals gate; Red sky at ... ; Climate change debate; Badger; Mouse dreams; Ratatoskr; Waltz, wasp; A working world; Office hours; I heard the bells ... ; Staff Christmas lunch; Free time; Receptionist; Bell curve; The Gambler's Fallacy.
- After a morning spent in a visioning session with a well-paid consultantAmong the Magi; Long division; Catena; Zero divided by zero; Complex number plane; Discounted annuals; Draft of a poem on 'inclusion'; Discounted annuals; The hat; The realms of asphodel; Kind to a cat; Child care; Old Anna; The things we drag behind us; Laundry hearts; This afternoon before the clocks turn back; In memoriam; Battle River country; season of metal; Laundry hearts; Within, without; In every tongue; threshold; sun thread; Foil; Circadian Arcadias; The poet's handbook of cognitive illusions.
- Hallucinating the musepronominal; Pathetic fallacy; Pareidolia; The Texas sharpshooter fallacy; Necker cube illusion; Confabulation; The League of Poets Burial Society; Epilogue; Cledonism; Notes; Acknowledgements; About the author; Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press.