Anthropocene blues : poems / John Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, John, 1954-

Contributor:

Mercer University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

62 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In the story of the earth, geologists tell us that around 12,000 years ago the planet shifted from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. There probably were poets to sing about that change, but of what they sang, we have no records. Even earlier, paintings on cave walls point toward an artistic response from our upstart species. These early artists painted the Pleistocene's last great ice age herds thundering past. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Geologist on Oyster Factory Road 1

Voice, While It Lasts 3

The Geologist Suspects God Plays Dice 7

DOR 8

Fox Sparrow 9

Erosion 11

While Snorkeling the Geologist Encounters E.G. Wilson and his Book The Social Conquest of Earth 13

The Geologist Finally Synthesizes the Idea of Island Biogeography 15

Fish with Head Still On 16

Field Notebook: Spring 17

After the Great Acceleration 18

The Truth about the Present 19

Road Trip to Suzhou 20

Field Notebook Boat Hippies 21

The Geologist Anticipates the End of Time 22

Erosion 23

The Geologist Scrutinizes Dinosaurs in the Anthropocene 24

Erosion 25

The Geologist Laments Limestone 28

Field Notebook: Burning 30

The Geologist On the Pluton 31

Erosion 32

First Life, Rotting Life 34

Erosion 35

Cirque of the Towers 36

Field Notebook: Antelope among Cattle 38

The Geologist Speaks of Phosphate 39

Text Book 41

Poem Without an End 43

Erosion 45

Fawn in a Hay Bale 48

The Geologist Surveys Key Swamp Trail 49

One Trouble 51

Nettle 57

Rathlin Island 58

The Geologist Considers the Post-Pastoral 59.

ISBN:

0881466255

9780881466256

OCLC:

1001252008