{"product_id":"welcome-to-the-anthropocene-9781772123685","title":"Welcome to the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alice Major\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Alberta Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Alberta Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--\"Where do we fit in the universe?\"--is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, welcome to the Anthropocene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea blue pearl on the necklace of the planets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis home. Clouds, oceans, life forms span it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom pole to pole, within a peel of air\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas thin as lace lapped round an apple. Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand fragile bounded sphere, yet strangely tough--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis world that life could never love enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet its loving-care has been entrusted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto a feckless species, more invested\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the partial, while the total goes unnoticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- from \"Welcome to the Anthropocene\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Alberta Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47888747659415,"sku":"9781772123685","price":2015.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781772123685.webp?v=1781168105","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/welcome-to-the-anthropocene-9781772123685","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}