Endlings: A Collection of Poems About Extinct Animals - Softcover

Lilley, Joanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888016891 ISBN 13: 9780888016898

Verlag: TURNSTONE PR, 2020

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Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead. In poems that are lyrical, exact, and deeply melancholic, Joanna Lilley demands audience for the final moments of animal extinction. From the zebra-horse quagga and chiding dodo, to the giant woolly mammoth and delicate Xerces Blue Butterfly, the haunting, urgent words of these "endlings" cut to the bone to expose the brutality of Nature and the devastating repercussions of human ignorance and intent, while giving hope that our humanity will help save what remains.

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Joanna Lilley is an award-winning poet living in Whitehorse. Born in the UK, Joanna has always been drawn north, crossing the Arctic Circle twice, before settling in the Yukon. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Malahat Review and Grain. Endlings is her third collection of poetry.

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Beauty

There's a rumour about beauty,
its long whiskers and golden eyes,
its stripes as dark
as the moon shadows of trees.
There's a rumour that the forest
took the beauty,
that the people who took
the forest took the beauty.
The beauty's stripes tightened,
sliced right through--the people
said they had nothing to do with it.
The whiskers caught fire
and the golden eyes burned
right through.

--Javan tiger

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• Verlag: TURNSTONE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0888016891
• ISBN 13: 9780888016898
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 153
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