Cartographies of Scale (and Wing) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780996292016)

Anca Vlasopolos' magnificent collection of poetry is a meditation on map-making and on migration, which pays homage to two scientists, Gerardus Mercator and Nathaniel Bowditch, whose work was enormously useful but unwittingly helped lead to conquest, decimation, and in some cases extinction of native habitats, peoples, and non-human life. These poems celebrate life that often passes unnoticed (intertidal creatures, migrating and "common" birds, amphibians, reptiles, non-charismatic mammals, and disregarded humans), advocate for its worth, habitats, and right to existence.

Author: Anca Vlasopolos
ISBN-10: 0996292012
ISBN-13: 9780996292016
Publisher: Corridors Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2015
Pages: 104
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d