Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic
By Lisa Bloom. Duke University Press, 2022.
In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the way artists, filmmakers, and activists in the Arctic and Antarctic represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attendant ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations. As opposed to mainstream media depictions of climate change that feature apocalyptic spectacles of distant ...Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations
By Scott Edward Anderson. Shanti Arts, 2022.
In Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations, award-winning poet and translator Scott Edward Anderson brings together a body of over thirty new poems written over the past decade, with older poems that have not appeared in collections before, as well as selections from his earlier works, Fallow Field and 30-Day Poems, the latter previously available only on the Internet. This book also includes a generous sampling of the poet’s translations of poems by important Portuguese poets ranging from Fernando Pessoa and ...Leavetakings: Essays
By Corinna Cook. University of Alaska Press, 2020.
“It is important to go both directions. It takes repetitions to see where you’ve been. And things look different when you’re leaving—even the air is different.”
Movements of departure and return propel Corinna Cook’s Alaska-based essay collection, Leavetakings. She asks: what can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? Essay by essay, proximity and distance play out on the land alongside the ebb and flow of ...
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties
By Suzanne Roberts. University of Nebraska Press, 2022.
How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame—our taboo desires and our grief. In landscapes as diverse as Salamanca’s cobbled streets, the Mekong River’s floating markets, Fire Island’s windswept beaches, Nashville’s honky-tonks, and the Sierra Nevada’s snowy slopes, Roberts interrogates her memory and tries to ...
Here for the Present: A Grammar of Happiness in the Present Imperfect, Live from the Poet’s Perch
By Barbara Mossberg. Pacific Grove Books, 2021.
In this exuberant record of Barbara Mossberg engaging audiences from California to Finland, you will find poems, stories, memoir, humor, elegies, celebrations, travel narratives, rollicking speeches, nature rapture, literary tributes, cooking instructions, and love songs, among other riches. You will encounter mountains and mountain lions, rivers and herons, lost loved ones and found miracles. In her company, you will experience, as she does, moments “when the Universe will reveal itself … as something generous and good, some ...
Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen
By Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann. Routledge, 2022.
Film, Environment, Comedy explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues.
This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight ...
Feeding Hour
By Jessica Gigot. Wandering Aengus Press, 2020.
Winner of the Nautilus Book Awards’ Silver Award in Poetry and shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award!
Gigot’s FEEDING HOUR deftly reimagines motherhood and devotion in the most tender of ways. This book will remind you how to care and be cared for. I’m so smitten with these love poems that dare promise a possible landscape where “…we can finally have everything, be everything we are called to be; Ourselves, in our own parade. Riding the elephant in the ...
Plastic: An Autobiography
By Allison Cobb. Nightboat Books, 2021.
In Plastic: An Autobiography, Cobb’s obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey exposes the interconnections among plastic waste, climate change, nuclear technologies, and racism. Using a series of interwoven narratives―from ancient Phoenicia to Alabama―the book bears witness to our deepest entanglements and asks how humans continue on this planet.
PRAISE“Plastic is ...
On the Trail of the Jackalope
By Michael P. Branch. Pegasus Books, 2022.
On the Trail of the Jackalope is the never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West. Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable ...Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life
By Gretchen Legler. Trinity University Press, 2022.
“Woodsqueer” is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kind of stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles her experiences intentionally focusing on not just making a living but making a life—in this case, an agrarian one more in tune with the earth on eighty acres in ...