WET
By Leanne Dunic. Talonbooks, 2024.
In Wet, a transient Chinese American model working in Singapore thirsts for the unattainable: fair labour rights, the extinguishing of nearby forest fires, breathable air, healthy habitats for animals, human connection. She navigates place and placelessness while observing other migrant workers toiling outdoors despite the hazardous conditions. Through photographs and language shot through with empathy and desire, Wet unravels complexities of social stratification, sexual privation, and environmental catastrophe.
Leanne Dunic (she/her) is a biracial, bisexual woman who has spent her life navigating liminal ...
WALKING BAREFOOT
By Vicki Graham. Red Dragonfly Press, 2023.
After a fire, walk barefoot on burnt earth, the poems of this collection call to the reader. Learn with your body the cycles of catastrophe and renewal in a land shaped by geologic faults and scarred by wildfires. In language at once lyrical and scientific, Graham takes her readers into the aftermath of the fires that have burned in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness of Oregon in the last two decades. And in language equally precise and evocative she ...
THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF SLOW FOOD: PEASANTS, PARTISANS, AND THE LANDSCAPE OF ITALIAN RESISTANCE
By Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan. Lexington Books, 2023.
The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance focuses on the work of a variety of intellectual activists, related food justice literature, and documentary films, and argues that contemporary forms of environmental activism, as they are rooted in local food and sustainable farming, are built on Italian peasant culture and its contributions to the Resistance movement during World War II.
This book looks to the hinterlands to demonstrate that peasants, by sharing ...