Bøker utgitt av TERRA FIRMA

More than 150 poems exploring the intersections of ecological awareness, social justice, and poetic expression

"In Satellite, Simmons Buntin explores the idea of belonging--in place, in time, in family, in community--in sixteen essays written over a span of nearly two decades. The essays range throughout the desert Southwest, on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, and as far afield as Mount Saint Helens, eastern Montana, northern Vermont, and Sweden. Buntin explores the challenges and beauty of raising a family and creating more sustainable communities in the diverse cultural and ecological landscape that is the Sonoran Desert-and, more broadly, in any American landscape. He asks the essential questions of our time, including, How broadly should community be defined? How do we realize heritage in an age of globalization? How do we find hope and renewal following personal and landscape trauma? What forms might grace take, and how can parents pass that on to their children?"--

As our treatment of nonhuman animals is increasingly implicated in planetary crises--from climate change to global pandemics to unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss and species extinction--it's clear that an urgent reconsideration of our relationship to other animals is not only necessary but overdue. How we write about animals, how we represent them in our poems and stories, doesn't simply reflect how we relate to them in the world; it also shapes how we treat them. Any cultural shift in how we conceive of other animals requires a shift in how we read and write about them. The New Sentience seeks to help catalyze this shift by ushering in a new kind of animal poetry, what editors Ashley Capps and Allison Titus dub "kinpoetics." Whereas animals in Western poetry have disproportionately functioned as symbols, the poems in this anthology foreground a meaningful awareness of animal sentience and subjectivity, depicting other animals as individuals with dynamic selfhood, personalities, and emotional lives. Stylistically wide-ranging, the poets featured here, among them Wendell Berry, Lucille Clifton, E. E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, Ross Gay, and Margaret Atwood, apply scrutinous lyrical attention to the animal experience in such surprising and illuminating ways that the reader can't avoid an earnest reexamination of what humans owe our more-than-human kin. With humility, empathy, and curiosity, the work in this anthology reaffirms the vital connections between humans, animals, and the natural world. This pioneering book will impel readers to a deeper understanding of the lives of the creatures that share our planet and will inspire poets and writers to a more compassionate, meaningful engagement with animal subjects and lives.

An exploration of the art of fly-fishing and Leonardo da Vinci’s obsession with water