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Endlings : a collection of poems about extinct animals

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    Turnstone Press, 2020
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2023
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2023
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Lilley, Joanna
    Date:
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    2020
    Summary:

    Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead. In poems that are lyrical, exact, and deeply melancholic, Joanna Lilley demands audience for the final moments of animal extinction. From the zebra-horse quagga and chiding dodo, to the giant woolly mammoth and delicate Xerces blue butterfly, the haunting, urgent words of these "endlings" cut to the bone to expose the brutality of Nature and the devastating repercussions of human ignorance and intent, while giving hope that our humanity will help save what remains.

    Genre:
    Canadian poetry, Pets and animals
    Subject(s): Extinct animals
    Original Publisher: Winnipeg, MB, Turnstone Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780888016898, 0888016891, 9780888016904, 9780888016904