{"product_id":"refugia-poems-9781948908344","title":"Refugia: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the inaugural \u003ci\u003eInterim\u003c\/i\u003e 2018 Test Site Poetry Series Prize, \u003ci\u003eRefugia\u003c\/i\u003e is a bright and hopeful voice in the current conversation about climate change. Kyce Bello's stunning debut ponders what it means to inhabit a particular place at a time of enormous disruption, witnessing a beloved landscape as it gives way to, as Bello writes, \"something other and unknown.\" These poems explore the author's home ground in Northern New Mexico and carefully observe nature's seasons in parallel with personal cycles of renewal and loss. The vivid and engaging poetry touches upon history, inheritance, dry rivers, mountains, and most of all, trees—be they Western conifer forests succumbing to climate change or family trees reaching simultaneously into the past and future. In doing so, Bello creates a connection between generations that underscores our most critical tool for survival: imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately a dedication of resilience, \u003ci\u003eRefugia\u003c\/i\u003e creates a terrain of the imagination that is, like ecological terrain, grounded in image and yet many-layered and unresolved. This poetry is a listening that writes us back into an ecological language of place that is crucial to our survival in this time of environmental crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKyce Bello elegantly braids together a focus on daily concerns—with an emphasis on family dynamics, particularly motherhood—with environmental concerns, as she grapples with the gifts and burdens of living in the Anthropocene… Bello's ability to hold joy and despair in the heart at once is remarkable; her concern for drought, for lost conifers, for the world her children will inhabit and inherit shines in these poems.\" - Amie Whittemore, author of Glass Harvest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kyce Bello's haunting \u003ci\u003eRefugia\u003c\/i\u003e is both homage and lament for the Earth we share. Kinder than Robinson Jeffers, Bello extends her sympathy also to the transience of human existence wherein we are all, ultimately, refugees. The equanimity of Bello's vision is direly needed in the ongoing environmental crises of our world. I'm thankful to find a poet in the 21st century with such compassion.\" - Claudia Keelan, Barrick Distinguished Scholar at UNLV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (1)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDear Future Child\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ashram at Leigh Mill Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuide to Flowering Plants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Trouble with Belief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (2)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tree Coroners\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMessage in a Bottle from the Sea of Cortez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrail Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhrases in the Original Unspoken\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrief Guide to Epigenetic Memory with Burning Bosque\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (3)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaper Trail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEquinox\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrass Widow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Air Before Easer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortrait of the Homemaker at Eighteen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Wear Long Skirts for My Own Unwary Pleasure,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (4)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes to Future Botanists in Search of Conifers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Speaker Reconciles with Spring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor the Record\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolar Pinholes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGazing on the Mid-Morning in an Expression of Solidarity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (5)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrossing Elwood Pass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Washerwoman Maps Her Body Before Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Carp Pond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDowsing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (6)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eField Notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRinconada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummer Ends With Ringing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLandscape with River Restored to its Historic Channel After 100 Years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (7)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFall Reckoning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen We Gathered to Stock up On Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCusp with Various Visitations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur Names Unfurl Across Winter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (8)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFurther Phrases in the Original Unspoken\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOmega\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArchipelago of Ancestral Bodies and Unnamed Landmarks of the Present\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugia (9)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWaveform\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrigin of the Apple\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRight of First Refugium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Nevada Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470359400791,"sku":"9781948908344","price":13.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781948908344.jpg?v=1744898124","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/refugia-poems-9781948908344","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}