{"product_id":"blue-thinks-itself-within-me-9781779401205","title":"Blue thinks itself within me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart autotheory, part activist manifesto, and part ode to the oldgrowth specklebelly lichen, this book about making poems in an age of ecological desperation is both heartbreaking and beautiful.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlue thinks itself within me chronicles the poet Kim Trainor’s experiences as an activist at the Ada’itsx \/ Fairy Creek blockade to prevent logging of Vancouver Island old growth forests, where she woke at 4:00 a.m. to boil water on a camp stove and wait for the police to arrive at the standoff. The two-year blockade on logging roads and in tree-sits became the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history—this multi-genre work brings the reader to the front lines of the fight for human and non-human survival in a climate catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrainor asks what, if anything, ecopoetry can do in the face of intensifying extraction of ecological capital. Can poems incorporate non-human species, like the oldgrowth specklebelly lichen that thrives in Fairy Creek, into their very form? How can poetry resist the urge to “capture” the non-human object and instead approach nature with sympathetic care? How might a poem offer an opportunity, like sunlight penetrating a clearing in the forest, to think about nature, to approach, and to be approached by the nonhuman? How might poetry contribute to a co-making of the world with more-than-human-species?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim Trainor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48305457856763,"sku":"9781779401205","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_fd9ee7e0-0749-4bbb-b38c-6d71aa830e26.jpg?v=1780546457","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/blue-thinks-itself-within-me-9781779401205","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}