A Blueprint For Survival by Kim Trainor

A Blueprint For Survival by Kim Trainor

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A Blueprint For Survival by Kim Trainor

A Blueprint for Survivalbegins in wildfire season, charting a long-distance relationship against the increasing urgency of climate change in the boreal, then shifts to a long sequence, "Seeds," which thinks about forms of resistance, survival, and emergence in the context of the sixth mass extinction. Each seed functions as blueprint, whether simple human-made tool or complex organism driven by its DNA to adapt to and respond to our current existential threat, each showing a different way of being in the world: lentil, snowdrop, chinook salmon, codex, tardigrade, honeybee, "the beautiful cell."
Kim Trainor is the author of Karyotype (Brick Books, 2015), Ledi (Book*hug Press, 2018), and A Thin Fire Runs Through Me (Goose Lane Editions, 2023). Her latest book is A Blueprint for Survival (Guernica Editions, 2024). Her poetry has won the Gustafson Prize, The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize and The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest. In 2018, she was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Trainor's work has appeared in the 2013 Global Poetry Anthology and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014. She lives in East Vancouver.
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ISBN 13 9781771838627
ISBN 10 1771838620
Title A Blueprint For Survival
Author Kim Trainor
Series Essential Poets Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Guernica Editions,Canada
Year published 2024-03-31
Number of pages 150
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.