Endlings: A Collection of Poems About Extinct Animals - Brossura

Lilley, Joanna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0888016891 ISBN 13: 9780888016898

Casa editrice: Turnstone Pr, 2020

Riassunto

Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead. In poems that are lyrical, exact, and deeply melancholic, Joanna Lilley demands audience for the final moments of animal extinction. From the zebra-horse quagga and chiding dodo, to the giant woolly mammoth and delicate Xerces Blue Butterfly, the haunting, urgent words of these "endlings" cut to the bone to expose the brutality of Nature and the devastating repercussions of human ignorance and intent, while giving hope that our humanity will help save what remains.

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Beauty

There's a rumour about beauty,
its long whiskers and golden eyes,
its stripes as dark
as the moon shadows of trees.
There's a rumour that the forest
took the beauty,
that the people who took
the forest took the beauty.
The beauty's stripes tightened,
sliced right through--the people
said they had nothing to do with it.
The whiskers caught fire
and the golden eyes burned
right through.

--Javan tiger

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Turnstone Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0888016891
• ISBN 13: 9780888016898
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 153
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile