Welcome to the Anthropocene
by
Alice Major
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
ISBN-10
1772123684
ISBN-13
9781772123685
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Imprint
University of Alberta Press
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 31st, 2018
Print length
136 Pages
Weight
196 grams
Dimensions
14.60 x 24.10 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryImpact of science & technology on society
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Poetry, science, ecological calamity, and human-driven climate change. Where do we fit in the universe?
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 hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic significance.Now, welcome to the Anthropoceneyou battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam,a blue pearl on the necklace of the planets.This home. Clouds, oceans, life forms span itfrom pole to pole, within a peel of airas thin as lace lapped round an apple. Fairand fragile bounded sphere, yet strangely tough—this world that life could never love enough.And yet its loving-care has been entrustedto a feckless species, more investedin the partial, while the total goes unnoticed.— from “Welcome to the Anthropocene”
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