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Title: Earth Is Not Flat, the
Author: COLES KATHARINE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/01/2017
Imprint: RED HEN
Price: $32.00
Publishing status: Active
In 2010, poet Katharine Coles sailed across the Drake Passage to spend a month at a tiny Antarctic science station under the auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The Earth Is Not Flat, the collection of poems written out of her adventure, invokes the vast land- and seascapes as well as the fauna–penguins, seals, whales, and scientists–she encountered along the way. Addressing not only the present reality of human habitation in Antarctica but also a rich history peopled by figures like Shackleton, Scott, and Amundsen, the poems bring Coles’ much-praised intelligence, passion, and humor to bear on subjects ranging from writing a grant proposal for scientists to heavy seas to the addictive potential of joy. Along the way, she continues her passionate meditation on reality and our place in it, using as her vehicles both the natural world and the human-created worlds of art, history, and science.
ISBN: 9781597097109
Weight: 181g
Dimension: 213mm X 152mm
Pages: 120