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Refugia / Kyce Bello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bello, Kyce, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Poetry.
- Nature.
- Climatic changes--Poetry.
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (91 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Winner of the inaugural Interim 2018 Test Site Poetry Series Prize Refugia is a bright and hopeful voice in the current conversation about climate change. Kyce Bello's stunning debut ponders what it means to inhabit a particular place at a time of enormous disruption, witnessing a beloved landscape as it gives way to, as Bello writes, "something other and unknown, growing beyond us." Ultimately an exploration of resilience, Refugia brings to life the author's home ground in Northern New Mexico and carefully observes the seasons in parallel with personal cycles of renewal and loss. These vivid poems touch upon history, inheritance, drought, and most of all, trees-be they Western conifers succumbing to warming temperatures, ramshackle orchards along the Rio Grande, or family trees reaching simultaneously into the past and future.Like any wilderness, Refugia creates a terrain that is grounded in image and yet many-layered and complex. These poems write us back into an ecological language of place crucial to our survival in this time of environmental crisis.
- Contents:
- Refugia (1)
- Dear future child
- The ashram at Leigh Mill Road
- Guide to flowering plants
- The trouble with belief
- Refugia (2)
- The tree coroners
- Message in a bottle from the Sea of Cortez
- Grail story
- Phrases in the original unspoken
- Brief guide to epigenetic memory with burning bosque
- Refugia (3)
- Paper trail
- Equinox
- Grass widow
- In the air before Easter
- Portrait of the homemaker at eighteen
- I wear long skirts for my own unwary pleasure
- Refugia (4)
- Notes to future botanists in search of conifers
- The speaker reconciles with spring
- For the record
- Solar pinholes
- Gazing on the mid-morning in an expression of solidarity
- Refugia (5)
- Crossing Elwood Pass
- The washerwoman maps her body before death
- The carp pond
- Dowsing
- Refugia (6)
- Field notes
- Rinconada
- Summer ends with ringing
- Landscape with Santa Fe River restored to its historic channel after 100 years
- Refugia (7)
- Fall reckoning
- When we gathered to stock up on light
- Cusp with various visitations
- Our names unfurl across winter
- Refugia (8)
- Further phrases in the original unspoken
- Omega
- Archipelago of ancestral bodies and unnamed landmarks of the present
- Refugia (9)
- Waveform
- Origin of the apple
- Right of first refugium.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781948908337
- 1948908336
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