Half-life of empathy / Rebecca A. Durham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durham, Rebecca A., author.

Contributor:

New Rivers Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Poetry.

Ecology.

Botany.

Montana.

Botany--Poetry.

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Montana--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Ecopoetry.

Nature poetry.

Physical Description:

vii, 93 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Half life of empathy

Place of Publication:

Moorhead, MN : New Rivers Press, [2020]

Summary:

" ... interrogates the complex human/non-human relationship in the Anthropocene. Rooted in the author's deep fascination and scientific knowledge of ecology, these poems take literal experiences and explore/distort them with language. Moving away from the traditional nature poem, this work enacts an ecology where a human speaker is decentered and earth regains agency." -- Publisher.

Contents:

I Hyperobjects

Imagine Being Present and Finding Yourself Gone p. 3

Into the Birdless Ether p. 4

Biological Assessment p. 8

The Temple Will See You Now p. 9

If We are Lost in the Forest We Stay Still p. 10

I'm Ready to Tell You about the Bodies p. 11

As for the Birch p. 12

Redstem Filaree p. 13

Cloud Seed, Condensation Nuclei, a Gathering Billow p. 14

Every Leaf Swifting p. 16

Luxurious Excess p. 17

Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups p. 19

Daylight Savings p. 20

[Ecomelancholia in Sea] p. 21

Azimuth and Altitude for Northern Latitudes p. 22

Red Flag Warning p. 23

Mountain Bluebirds a Locus of p. 24

Stop to Contemplate the Sheer Height of It p. 26

More Bird Mind Than Squirrel Mind p. 27

Bivalve p. 28

Outside, by the p. 29

Civil Twilight p. 30

Flourish p. 31

No Entry: A Dichotomous Key to Elemental Disarray p. 32

Later in this Same Passage p. 34

Field Note: We Ponder the Sixth Extinction at Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge p. 36

Terpsichorean p. 38

Across the Ice Shelf, Ominous New Rifts p. 39

Meander Belt p. 41

Did They Ask p. 42

Of Paradox p. 44

II Meander Belt

Viscous Slick p. 49

The Warming p. 50

I Started Eating Rose Petals p. 52

On Crustose Lichens p. 53

Air Quality Index p. 54

To Gather Nectar p. 55

Surrounding the Senses p. 57

Markings Crisp and Variable p. 58

Autumn Hymn p. 59

Even as We Approach It p. 60

Notes from the Center of a Glacial Lake p. 61

Alaska Tell Me There's Somewhere Safe from Us p. 62

Fuzzy Tongue Penstemon p. 63

What Sifts the Straits of this Pebbled Treble? p. 64

We Went Up Mt. Baldy to Botanize and Gray Fog p. 65

Even Though, Usness p. 66

(I hear)⁶ (Too much)⁷ p. 67

Soil, Re-visited p. 68

We Left to Let Them Stew in Their Predicament p. 69

Perigynium p. 70

Find the Foci p. 71

Valentine p. 72

General Evidence p. 73

Funerary p. 74

The Garden of Surging Waves is a Square p. 76

O Stunned Mountains Our Shame p. 77

Riparian Reparation p. 78

First Shapeless p. 79

Trimerous p. 80

III Less, Unless

Sky-Pause p. 85.

Notes:

Poems.

Series title from publisher's website.

ISBN:

9780898233940

0898233941

OCLC:

1222933876

Publisher Number:

99987267183