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Watch your head : writers & artists respond to the climate crisis

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    Coach House Books, 2020

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  • Contributor: Mockler, Kathryn
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    2020
    Summary:

    Art about the climate crisis that calls for justice and systemic change while raising funds to help tackle the problem. We are in a climate emergency. The polar bears are starving, Australia is burning. Climate anxiety--like sea levels--is rising to unprecedented levels. In response to this, poet and editor Kathryn Mockler created a website where writers and artists could post creative works that respond to this crisis. Watch Your Head curates the best poems, stories, essays, and images related to our environmental crisis. The work is ranty, mourning, desperate, in-your-face, hopeful, healing, transformative, and radical. It calls out hypocrisy and injustice to inspire you to do whatever you can--volunteer for a climate justice organization, support land and water defenders, call out the media--and it'll make you feel less alone in your worry.

    Contents:
    • Cover
    • Title Page
    • Copyright Page
    • Table of Contents
    • Introduction
    • We Will Tell Them of Our Dominion
    • Empty Spaces (3)
    • Humpbacks, Howe Sound
    • Whale-Fall Suspension
    • High School Fever (excerpt)
    • Goodbye
    • Together We Will Rise or Fall
    • On Growth
    • Speculative Fiction
    • Weird
    • Crossing the Line
    • The Greening
    • The Blue Line
    • Sleeping Warrior Dreams of Pastures and Power
    • Sleeping Warrior, Dressing Warrior
    • Reclaiming Our Names
    • Whether the Heavens Break
    • For the Feral Splendour that Remains
    • Altered After Too Many Years Under the Mask Halfling bear (eclipse)
    • As Long As
    • soft body tidalectics
    • You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency
    • I never got over sixty likes
    • The Heart is a Knot
    • gLITTER
    • The Larger Forgetting (excerpt)
    • Rhapsodic Trip
    • To Plant Life (all)
    • Grey Water
    • The World Ends for Good This Time
    • potatoes
    • The Canada Goose
    • Trinity
    • Flotsam
    • Lantern Letter: A Zuihitsu
    • The Poplar Vote
    • How to Small
    • Sudbury
    • Anemone
    • On Radiance
    • Amateur Kittens Dreaming Solar Energy (excerpt)
    • how to survive in a time of great urgency
    • climate anxiety All this to say
    • Ashen Fields
    • Requies
    • Shall We Gather
    • Species Made Extinct by Human Activities
    • I still want eyelid bees
    • Only the Sun
    • 26
    • Under the Scope, Micro
    • Hopeful Antibodies
    • Ruin Value
    • Tres-pass 1
    • Tres-pass 3
    • Erratic #4
    • Erratic #8
    • Planet at the Crossroads
    • revolution
    • How to Find Your Way in Strathcona County
    • refrain
    • I Am Writing a Spell for Your Nervous System
    • Erasure: A Response to 'Musée des Beaux Arts' and Suffering
    • Decapitated Palms
    • King Tide
    • This Poem is a Dead Zone
    • Make a Living
    • Safety Net
    • Spawning Grounds Debating Foundations
    • Meltwater Basin
    • Ode to a Common Nighthawk
    • to cope
    • creation
    • Snapshot
    • Snapshot
    • Forty-Nine
    • Fifty-Five
    • Fifty-Six
    • Notes from a Small Place
    • Triple Moments of Light Industry
    • The Prospect (excerpt)
    • The Way Carrying Someone Changes How we Love
    • The Omega Trick
    • Tree Sketch #1
    • Tree Sketch #2
    • Perspiration, a Conspiracy
    • Kebsquasheshing
    • Environment
    • Lessons from Prison: A Shackled Pipeline Protestor Reflects
    • for those who can still afford it, glaciers will continue to exist
    • port blockade oven-hot sweet potato
    • jia you Writing in a Dangerous Time
    • Artist Statements
    • The Contributors
    • The Editors
    • Credits
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Coach House Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781770566590, 1770566597, 9781770566446, 1770566449, 9781770566439, 1770566430, 9781552454121, 1552454126