{"product_id":"a-blueprint-for-survival-volume-308-paperback","title":"A Blueprint for Survival: Volume 308 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKim Trainor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Blueprint for Survival\u003c\/i\u003e begins in wildfire season, charting a long-distance relationship against the increasing urgency of climate change in the boreal, then shifts to a long sequence, \"Seeds,\" which thinks about forms of resistance, survival, and emergence in the context of the sixth mass extinction. Each seed functions as blueprint, whether simple human-made tool or complex organism driven by its DNA to adapt to and respond to our current existential threat, each showing a different way of being in the world: lentil, snowdrop, chinook salmon, codex, tardigrade, honeybee, \"the beautiful cell.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Trainor is the author of \u003ci\u003eKaryotype (\u003c\/i\u003eBrick Books, 2015), \u003ci\u003eLedi\u003c\/i\u003e (Book*hug Press, 2018), and \u003ci\u003eA Thin Fire Runs Through Me\u003c\/i\u003e (Goose Lane Editions, 2023). Her latest book is \u003ci\u003eA Blueprint for Survival \u003c\/i\u003e(Guernica Editions, 2024). Her poetry has won the Gustafson Prize, \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Long Poem Prize and \u003ci\u003eThe Antigonish Review's\u003c\/i\u003e Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest. In 2018, she was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Trainor's work has appeared in the 2013 \u003ci\u003eGlobal Poetry Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in East Vancouver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764179501344,"sku":"9781771838627","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/99ddc0361a393ddd565497a132729b7d.webp?v=1780244967","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-blueprint-for-survival-volume-308-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}