Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, “Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society.” Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation, and the plausibility (or implausibility) of innovative technologies. But the topic of […]
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From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it’s “another day in this here cosmos,” in Maureen N. McLane’s stunning third poetry collection, This Blue. Here are songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now. In the middle of life, stationed in our common “Terran Life,” the poet […]
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Please visit Caroline’s website for more of her novels. Kudos for Disturbing the Peace: Two long prose poems and fourteen short fictions inspired by the author’s upbringing on a Peace River homestead. Sharp-edged, observant and well-salted with wit, these stories are much-anthologized, from high school and university textbooks to TV […]
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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. […]
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Carolyn Welch’s new chapbook encompasses over a decade of poems that reflect her native California. From her experiences as a novice surfer to writing experimental prose, such as pantoums and vignettes, Carolyn has produced an imaginative, musical, and often eerie collection. The poems crawl with motifs of extinction, ends, human […]
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