Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--Where do we fit in the universe?--is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic significance.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781772123968 9781772123685
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M3454
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2018eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (121 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00976105 (CaOOCEL)455581
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Prologue 12
- In medias res 14
- Welcome to the Anthropocene 16
- Welcome to the Anthropocene 18
- The local globe 40
- Windfall advisory 42
- There goes the neighbourhood 43
- Guardians of Eden 44
- Privacy acts 45
- Bird singularities 46
- Dust to dust 47
- Annual grains 48
- Demeter waits at the arrivals gate 49
- Red sky at … 50
- Climate change debate 51
- Badger 52
- Mouse dreams 55
- Ratatoskr 56
- Waltz, wasp 57
- A working world 58
- Office hours 60
- I heard the bells … 61
- Staff Christmas lunch 62
- Free time 63
- Receptionist 64
- Bell curve 65
- The Gambler’s Fallacy 66
- After a morning spent in a visioning session with a well-paid consultant 67
- Among the Magi 68
- Long division 70
- Catena 72
- Zero divided by zero 77
- Complex number plane 79
- Discounted annuals 86
- Draft of a poem on ‘inclusion’ 88
- Discounted annuals 89
- The hat 91
- The realms of asphodel 92
- Kind to a cat 93
- Child care 94
- Old Anna 95
- The things we drag behind us 97
- Laundry hearts 98
- This afternoon before the clocks turn back 100
- In memoriam 101
- Battle River country 102
- season of metal 103
- Laundry hearts 104
- Within, without 105
- In every tongue 106
- threshold 107
- sun thread 108
- Foil 109
- Circadian Arcadias 110
- The poet’s handbook of cognitive illusions 112
- Hallucinating the muse 114
- pronominal 115
- Pathetic fallacy 116
- Pareidolia 117
- The Texas sharpshooter fallacy 118
- Necker cube illusion 119
- Confabulation 120
- The League of Poets Burial Society 123
- Epilogue 124
- Cledonism 126
- Notes 128
- Acknowledgements 132
- About the author 134
- Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press 137