The Last Show on Earth: Poems from the Anthropocene by Blomer, Yvonne

The Last Show on Earth: Poems from the Anthropocene (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773860770)

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The Last Show on Earth: Poems from the Anthropocene by Blomer, Yvonne

The Last Show on Earth: Poems from the Anthropocene

$13.00
The Last Show on Earth: Poems from the Anthropocene by Blomer, Yvonne

The Last Show on Earth: Poems from the Anthropocene

$13.00
Format: Paperback
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In this unflinching and whimsical collection, Victoria's former poet laureate Yvonne Blomer explores death, disability, and the fate of our imperilled world.

In The Last Show on Earth, Yvonne Blomer gathers the diverse characters and distinct moments from everyday life, its tragedies, and triumphs, and begins to imagine them in a circus as side shows and exhibitions of the unusual. In her latest collection, Blomer borrows from museum dioramas, the paintings of Robert Bateman, and the animal portraits in National Geographic to question and explore the human element in the lives and survival of other species. In poems that are at times unflinchingly dark yet playful, Blomer balances on a tightrope of grief and hope as she traces the lines from motherhood and caring for aging parents to caring for our planet and its endangered creatures--the whale, the elephant, the wolf, the polar bear--as they face ongoing environmental destruction. In The Last Show on Earth, we are all performers under the bright striped tent or packed on the circus train heading toward an unknown destination.

Author: Yvonne Blomer
ISBN-10: 1773860771
ISBN-13: 9781773860770
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2022
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
By Yvonne Blomer
By Yvonne Blomer
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Award-winning poet and memoirist Yvonne Blomer is the author of Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur, and three books of poetry, most recently As if a Raven. She works as an editor, teacher, and mentor in poetry and memoir. Yvonne served as the city of Victoria poet laureate from 2015-2018. In 2017 Yvonne edited the anthology Refugium: Poems for the Pacific and in 2020, Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds. Yvonne lives, works, and raises her family on the traditional territories of the WSﾁNEC (Saanich), Lkwungen (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation.

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