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Title: Black Bear Inside Me, The Condition: New Author: Robin Becker Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0822965240 EAN: 9780822965244 ISBN: 9780822965244 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Genre: Poetry & Drama Release Date: 12/02/2018 Description: Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places—never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years. Ecologies interlace, as when a troubled family “sacrifices one member,/ as plants surrender leaves in times of drought.” Becker responds with rage and wit to corporate excess and intractable geo-politics. Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time “mows” down our days, though we may never escape “original cruelties.” Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando; the terrors facing Cambodian teenagers working fishing boats. Wise, capacious, by turns unsettling and joyous, The Black Bear Inside Me incorporates histories and losses into a luminous present. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 230mm Item Length: 150mm Book Series: Pitt Poetry Series Release Year: 2018 Missing Information?
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