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Blue thinks itself within me

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Lyric poetry, ecology, and lichenous form

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Kim Trainor

2 589 kr

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Part autotheory, part activist manifesto, and part ode to the oldgrowth specklebelly lichen, this book about making poems in an age of ecological desperation is both heartbreaking and beautiful.Blue thinks itself within me chronicles the poet Kim Trainor’s experiences as an activist at the Ada’itsx / Fairy Creek blockade to prevent logging of Vancouver Island old growth forests, where she woke at 4:00 a.m. to boil water on a camp stove and wait for the police to arrive at the standoff. The two-year blockade on logging roads and in tree-sits became the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history—this multi-genre work brings the reader to the front lines of the fight for human and non-human survival in a climate catastrophe.Trainor asks what, if anything, ecopoetry can do in the face of intensifying extraction of ecological capital. Can poems incorporate non-human species, like the oldgrowth specklebelly lichen that thrives in Fairy Creek, into their very form? How can poetry resist the urge to “capture” the non-human object and instead approach nature with sympathetic care? How might a poem offer an opportunity, like sunlight penetrating a clearing in the forest, to think about nature, to approach, and to be approached by the nonhuman? How might poetry contribute to a co-making of the world with more-than-human-species?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-02-03
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOskana Poetry & Poetics
Antal sidor344
FörlagUniversity of Regina Press
ISBN9781779401212

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PrefaceChapter 1. The Dark MountainFire SeasonThe dark depressionKiaw, kiaw, kiawToward the dark sweetChapter 2. ApertureOpeningsApertureOldgrowth specklebelly lichenRoadside, Ada’itsx / Fairy CreekCobalt / Supply chainsRadical attunement and the lyric poemChapter 3. Co-makingNestworkSnail shellWhat is it like to be a tree?Poem as made (of) thing(s)ChapbookFasciculesMakingIntroductions for co-making this worldChapter 4. VigilanceGround of our being in the worldGrandmother Tree, Grandfather TreeTsawalkLa vide / emptyingChapter 5. Poems like Miebach sculpturesThe Burden of Every DropFieldnotesPoems like Miebach sculpturesWhat will I carry in my backpack?Sympoiesis (making-with)Oldgrowth specklebelly lichen—Lichenous formsChapter 6. Piiiiittuuu | Song kinUmweltSongs of the humpback whaleBiosonificationAcoustemeWhat do they call themselves?Eye yields at a distance, sound gathers withinWhat we do not perceive, we do not knowQualiaChapter 7. Blue thinks itself within meInchwormÉcart | Mind the gapDescartes | Ghost in the machineKant | Das Ding an Sich (The Thing in Itself)Heidegger | Das Ding an Sich (The Thing in Itself)Merleau-Ponty | Le chiasme, la chair (Chiasm, flesh)Levinas | Alterity of soundOOO | Mutual darknessOrtega y Gasset | La célula bella (The beautiful cell)Panpsychism | Rainforest teaming with consciousnessPostscript: Some notes on an oldgrowth specklebelly lichen poemAcknowledgementsBibliography