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Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene

Contributor(s): Russo, Linda (Editor), Reed, Marthe (Editor)

ISBN: 9780819578457

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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Pub Date: October 23, 2018

Dewey: 306.44

LCCN: 2018036450

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.60" H x 8.60" L x 5.70" W ( 0.65 lbs) 144 pages

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Description: "This book serves as a collectively generated (re)invented sourcebook-a glossary on the edge of extinction, a language for landscapes under threat. This glossary compiles terms (many borrowed, invented, recast) that might help us configure or elaborate our engagements with place. Each entry is a sketch, a notion, an opening"--

Review Quotes:

"Affirming the imagination's importance in effecting change, with marvelous invention this poets' glossary of terms responsive to the Anthropocene illuminates losses and violations, offers resources, inspires hope."--Lynn Keller, author of Recomposing Ecopoetics

"Affirming the imagination's importance in effecting change, with marvelous invention this poets' glossary of terms responsive to the Anthropocene illuminates losses and violations, offers resources, inspires hope."--Lynn Keller, author of Recomposing Ecopoetics

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