Extinction Song by James, John

Extinction Song (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781961209558)

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Extinction Song by James, John

Extinction Song

$19.95
Extinction Song by James, John

Extinction Song

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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A collection that combines fixed poetic forms with long-form meditative lyrics to explore questions of agency in the Anthropocene.

Extinction Song begins with a tender depiction of early parenthood, as the speaker cradles his newborn son while imagining a dystopian climate future. The poems open into a broader consideration of overlapping and interrelated systems, from the confines of received knowledge to the closed circuit of ideology to the circularity of pollutive environmental cycles. Attentive to the levels of sound and of visual architecture, these poems highlight both destruction and unseen possibilities. By turns meditative and probing, and sometimes slyly funny, Extinction Song unwinds the perils and the joys of our precarious climate future.

Author: John James
ISBN-10: 1961209551
ISBN-13: 9781961209558
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2026
Pages: 35
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
By John James
By John James
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John James is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, as well as two previous chapbooks, Winter, Glossolalia, and Chthonic, winner of the CutBank Chapbook Prize. His poems appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Best American Poetry, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere, and his work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, the Academy of American Poets, and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University. He holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia and is completing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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