Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges presents nearly 100 poets and translators from China and the U.S.--the two countries most responsible for global carbon dioxide emissions and the primary contributors to extreme climate change. These poetic voices express the altered relationship that now exists between the human and non-human worlds, a situation in which we witness everyday the ways environmental destruction is harming our emotions and imaginations.
"What can poetry say about our place in the natural world today?" ecologically minded poets ask. "How do we express this new reality in art or sing about it in poetry?" And, as poet Forrest Gander wonders, "how might syntax, line break, or the shape of the poem on the page express an ecological ethics?"We publiceren alleen reviews die voldoen aan de voorwaarden voor reviews. Bekijk onze voorwaarden voor reviews.