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The Black Bear Inside Me (Pitt Poetry Series)
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN13:
9780822965244
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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.
- | Author: Robin Becker
- | Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 12, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 72 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
- | ISBN-10: 0822965240
- | ISBN-13: 9780822965244
- Author:
- Robin Becker
- Publisher:
- University Of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:
- Feb 12, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 72 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Poetry
- ISBN-10:
- 0822965240
- ISBN-13:
- 9780822965244