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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Presence
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Iijima, Brenda
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 290 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: At Treasure Island, a humanly made island in the San Francisco Bay, a performance troupe dressed in hazmat suits articulate gestures that resemble toxic remediation. As they become more attuned to the site and to its history and ecology, enigmatic presences infiltrate their spacetime. Are they from the past, the present, or the future? What is the significance of their sudden arrival? What happens when historical and geological eras converge? Meanwhile, elsewhere, various earth scientists at sites around the globe search for the "golden spike," a telltale geologic marker that synchronously indicates a definitive time change in the strata, a change from the Holocene epoch to the Anthropocene. Within their data is Earth's biography, but how is humanity insinuated within this chronology? Throughout Presence, encounter and contact are the major elements of consequence, action, implication and resounding significance. Encounter and contact between timeframes, cultures, ecologies, persons, intuitions, ways of living and worlding. At these junctures are the moments of possibility, of violence and/or of budding community.
  note: Brenda Iijima.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  classification: PS3559.I35 P74 2024
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780820365299
  identifier: 0820365297
  identifier: 9780820365305
  identifier: 0820365300
  identifier: 9780820365312
  identifier: 2023025314
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230607
    record change date: 20240315183403.5
    record identifier: in00004766708