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9781556595417: HERE: Poems for the Planet
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ISBN 10: 1556595417 ISBN 13: 9781556595417
Verlag: Copper Canyon Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

"This book, HERE: Poems for the Planet, contains many beautiful, generous poems and ideas for action. It is my heartfelt hope that they will inspire readers who ask themselves, 'But what can I do?' to see that there is a way forward―learning to share the earth and its resources, while taking care of it together." ―His Holiness The Dalai Lama “By so exquisitely and compassionately illuminating our planetary predicament, these spirited poems of diverse perspectives inspire us to step forward in hope.” ―Booklist HERE: Poems for the Planet is a lovesong to a planet in crisis. Summoning a chorus of over 125 diverse poetic voices, this anthology approaches the impending environmental crisis with a sense of urgency and hopefulness. Now more than ever is the time for this book as it seeks to galvanize readers, students, teachers, philanthropists and everyday people to address the realities of climate change head on and become individual catalysts for change. Here looks at the world with a renewed sense of courage, fighting fear that so often leads to indifference and cynicism. The anthology also includes an activist guide, created in tandem with the Union of Concerned Scientists, and an introduction by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. With these poems, we hope you will see with new eyes what the astronauts saw the first time they peered down from space at our tiny world. “Here: Poems for the Planet is so much more than a poetry collection [it is] dedicated to all we stand to lose as the Earth heats up.” ―Tricycle Magazine “In these pages scientists write to poets―and to all of us who love poems. We are sharing common language, looking at the same marvelous, embattled world together and wanting it to stay.” ―Poetry Northwest

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An anthology of contemporary poets writing for a planet in crisis, speaking in diverse voices from praise to witness to grief―and into action.

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be careful Ed Roberson i must be careful about such things as these. the thin-grained oak. the quiet grizzlies scared into the hills by the constant tracks squeezing in behind them closer in the snow. the snared rigidity of the winter lake. deer after deer crossing on the spines of fish who look up and stare with their eyes pressed to the ice. in a sleep. hearing the thin taps leading away to collapse like the bear in the high quiet. i must be careful not to shake anything in too wild an elation. not to jar the fragile mountains against the paper far- ness. nor avalanche the fog or the eagle from the air. of the gentle wilderness i must set the precarious words. like rocks. without one snowcapped mistake Ruin and Beauty Patricia Young It's so quiet now the children have decided to stop being born. We raise our cups in an empty room. In this light, the curtains are transparent as gauze. Through the open window we hear nothing- no airplane, lawn mower, no siren speeding its white pain through the city's traffic. There is no traffic. What remains is all that remains. The brick school at the five points crosswalk is drenched in morning glory. Its white flowers are trumpets festooning this coastal town. Will the eventual forest rise up and remember our footsteps? Already seedlings erupt through cement, crabgrass heaves through cracked marble, already wolves come down from the hills to forage among us. We are like them now, just another species looking to the stars and howling extinction. They say the body accepts any kind of sorrow, that our ancestors lay down on their stomachs in school hallways, as children they lay down like matches waiting for a nuclear fire. It wasn't supposed to end like this: all ruin and beauty, vines waterfalling down a century's architecture; it wasn't supposed to end so quietly, without fanfare or fuss, a man and woman collecting rain in old coffee tins. Darling, the wars have been forgotten. These days our quarrels are only with ourselves. Tonight you sit on the edge of the bed loosening your shoes. The act is soundless, without future weight. Should we name this failure? Should we wake to the regret at the end of time doing what people have always done and say it was not enough? Invitation Aimee Nezhukumatathil Come in, come in. The water’s fine! You can’t get lost here. Even if you want to hide behind a clutch of spiny oysters―I’ll find you. If you ever leave me at night, by boat, you’ll see the arrangement of red-gold sun stars in a sea of milk. And though it’s tempting to visit them―stay. I’ve been trained to gaze up all my life, no matter the rumble on earth, but I learned it’s okay to glance down into the sea. So many lessons bubble up if you know where to look. Clouds of plankton churning in open whale mouths might send you east and chewy urchins will slide you west. Squid know how to be rich when you have ten empty arms. Can you believe there are humans who don’t value the feel of a good bite and embrace at least once a day? Underneath you, narwhals spin upside down while their singular tooth needles you like a compass pointed towards home. If you dive deep enough where imperial volutes and hatchetfish swim, you will find all the colors humans have not yet named, and wide caves of black coral and clamshell. A giant squid finally let itself be captured in a photograph, and the paper nautilus ripple-flashes scarlet and two kinds of violet when it silvers you near. Who knows what will happen next? And if you still want to look up, I hope you see the dark sky as oceanic― boundless, limitless―like all the shades of blue in a glacier. Listen how this planet spins with so much fin, wing, and fur.

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Verlag
Copper Canyon Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1556595417
ISBN 13 
9781556595417
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Herausgeber
Coleman Elizabeth J.
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