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Welcome to the Anthropocene
Paperback
Series: Robert Kroetsch
General PoetryHistory & Philosophy of Science
ISBN13: 9781772123685
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: Dec 7 2022
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 Anthropocene
you battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam,
a blue pearl on the necklace of the planets.
This home. Clouds, oceans, life forms span it
from pole to pole, within a peel of air
as thin as lace lapped round an apple. Fair
and fragile bounded sphere, yet strangely tough--
this world that life could never love enough.
And yet its loving-care has been entrusted
to a feckless species, more invested
in the partial, while the total goes unnoticed.
-- from Welcome to the Anthropocene
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