How to abandon ship /
In How to Abandon Ship, Sasha West harnesses poetry as a vessel to ferry the inconceivable, to wreck upon the shores of what we’ve known thus far. Assessing the accelerating emergencies of climate change amid the West’s self-cannibalizing capitalism, the speaker of these poems wrestles with the stat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tribeca, New York :
Four Way Books,
[2024].
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| Summary: | In How to Abandon Ship, Sasha West harnesses poetry as a vessel to ferry the inconceivable, to wreck upon the shores of what we’ve known thus far. Assessing the accelerating emergencies of climate change amid the West’s self-cannibalizing capitalism, the speaker of these poems wrestles with the state of the world and its compounding catastrophes as a new parent. That fierce love becomes her grappling hook into the glut of information and epochal view of time and space we must scale to leave our children a habitable, equitable planet. To approach a perspective too vast for the individual mind, West cycles through personae which collectively metabolize the strands of the past, and the foundational myths of Western civilization, that constructed this looming future. West speaks as a contemporary mother and an ancient proxy, the unheeded Greek oracle Cassandra, gives voice to fossil fuels and imagines grown children, real and mythological, surviving beyond a world our generation preemptively mourns. |
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| Physical Description: | 117 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781954245921 1954245920 |