{"product_id":"to-the-last-be-human-paperback","title":"[To] the Last [Be] Human - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJorie Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert MacFarlane\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e[To] The Last [Be] Human\u003c\/i\u003e collects four\u003cbr\u003eextraordinary poetry books--\u003ci\u003eSea Change, Place, Fast, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRunaway\u003c\/i\u003e--by\u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the introduction by Robert Macfarlane:  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at\u003cbr\u003e373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per\u003cbr\u003emillion; that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively. The\u003cbr\u003ebody of work gathered here stands as an extraordinary lyric record of those\u003cbr\u003eeighteen calamitous years: a glittering, teeming Anthropocene journal, written\u003cbr\u003efrom within the New Climatic Regime (as Bruno Latour names the present), rife\u003cbr\u003ewith hope and raw with loss, lush and sparse, hard to parse and hugely powerful\u003cbr\u003eto experience ... Graham's poems are turned to face our planet's deep-time\u003cbr\u003efuture, and their shadows are cast by the long light of the will-have-been. But\u003cbr\u003ethey are made of more durable materials than granite and concrete, they are\u003cbr\u003every far from passive, and their tasks are of record as well as warning: to\u003cbr\u003epreserve what it has felt like to be a human in these accelerated years when\u003cbr\u003e'the future \/ takes shape \/ too quickly, ' when we are entering 'a time \/ beyond\u003cbr\u003ebelief.' They know, these poems, and what they tell is precise to their form....\u003cbr\u003eSometimes they are made of ragged, hurting, hurtling, and body-fleeing\u003cbr\u003elanguage; other times they celebrate the sheer, shocking, heart-stopping gift\u003cbr\u003eof the given world, seeing light, tree, sea, skin, and star as a 'whirling robe\u003cbr\u003ehumming with firstness, ' there to 'greet you if you eye-up.'  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI know not to mistake the pleasures of this poetry for\u003cbr\u003epresentist consolation; the situation has moved far beyond that: 'Wind would be\u003cbr\u003enice but \/ it's only us shaking.' ... To read these four twenty-first-century\u003cbr\u003ebooks together in a single volume is to experience vastly complex patterns\u003cbr\u003eforming and reforming in mind, eye, and ear. These poems sing within\u003cbr\u003ethemselves, between one another, and across collections, and the song that\u003cbr\u003ejoins them all is uttered simply in the first lines of the last poem of the\u003cbr\u003elast book:  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe earth said \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eremember me.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe earth said \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003edon't let go,  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003esaid it one day \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003ewhen I was \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eaccidentally \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003elistening... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJorie Graham \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of a dozen collections of poetry, \u003cbr\u003eincluding \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of the Unified Field, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the Pulitzer Prize. She\u003cbr\u003edivides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she\u003cbr\u003eteaches at Harvard University.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 7.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766279471392,"sku":"9781556596605","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/767323b3f635fec44f5eec7ebd7c4b84.webp?v=1780289116","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/to-the-last-be-human-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}