{"product_id":"blue-thinks-itself-within-me-lyric-poetry-ecology-and-lichenous-form","title":"Blue Thinks Itself Within Me: Lyric Poetry, Ecology, and Lichenous Form","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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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?","brand":"University of Regina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54418519195953,"sku":"9781779401205","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3922\/2065\/files\/imageloader_b9b1d8f7-47ed-4432-ba60-6174ebc847e2.jpg?v=1780536367","url":"https:\/\/bainbridgeisland.press\/products\/blue-thinks-itself-within-me-lyric-poetry-ecology-and-lichenous-form","provider":"Bainbridge Island Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}