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  • Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction

    by Thalia Field ...
    In Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction, Thalia Field uses the dysfunctional marriage of Claude and Fanny Bernard to reveal the wider cultural disruptions in 19th-century (especially 2nd Empire) France—both through his role as a founder of experimental medicine and her role as an early anti-vivisection agitator and activist.At its heart, Experimental Animals is a book about humans and how we ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Personhood

    by Thalia Field ...
    A remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writersWhether investigating refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the "invasive species crisis," Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bird Lovers, Backyard

    by Thalia Field ...
    Thalia Field’s third book with New Directions is a tour de force of blending literary genres (poetry, prose, essay, and drama) and examining our control of the natural world.Bird Lovers, Backyard continues Thalia Field’s interrogation of the act of storytelling and her experimentation with literary genre. Field’s illuminating essays, or stories, in poetic form, place scientists, philosophers, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Turtle Island

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1975)These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time. ... Read more

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  • Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl

    Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

    by Wilson Wilson ...
    What is this World? What kind of place is it?“The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the carpets ... Read more

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  • Great Tide Rising

    Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a time of Planetary Change

    Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise—a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth's fullness of life.Philosopher and nature essayist Kathleen Dean Moore takes on the essential questions: Why is it wrong to wreck the world? What ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Animals

    by Gary Kowalski ...
    Why do elephants bury their dead? What makes birds sing and cranes dance? Do animals appreciate art? Do they know the difference between right and wrong? Do they experience awe and wonder? In this revised second edition of his celebrated book, Reverend Gary Kowalski combines heartwarming stories with solid science to show that other creatures are not insensitive objects devoid of feeling and ... Read more

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  • American Poetry

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    " Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work." — The Washington PostWith work from the seventy-five poets who are the game-changing, bar-setting voices of our time first published in this volume, Conjunctions: 35, American Poetry is the definitive collection for the contemporary poetic landscape. Includes astonishing uncollected work from ... Read more

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  • Twice Alive

    An exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryIn the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary ... Read more

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  • Elephant Rocks

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    The former US Poet Laureate shares "fine poems that inspire us with poetry's greatest gifts: the music of language and the force of wisdom" (Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan's poems have generated growing excitement with their ... Read more

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  • The Ecopoetry Anthology

    Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing natural world and inquires of our human place in a vastness beyond the human.To establish the antecedents of ... Read more

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