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SUMMARY:Bathsheba Demuth: Floating Coast
DESCRIPTION:Bathsheba Demuth discusses her new book\, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. \nPraise for Floating Coast \n“In Floating Coast\, Bathsheba Demouth has written a brilliant hybrid book about one of the most fragile and forgotten of Anthropocene front-line territories\, the Bering Strait. Uniting ecology\, anthropology\, reportage and more\, this is a superb work of environmental history\, often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research\, intense looking and listening\, and its clear ethical vision.” — Robert Macfarlane \n“… Demuth has now herself written the history she calls for. Floating Coast is a historian’s Moby Dick\, a great white whale of a book that spans centuries and links landscapes\, living beings\, and the flux of time\, into a marvelously readable narrative.”    — Amitav Ghosh \nAbout Floating Coast \nWhales and walruses\, caribou and fox\, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources\, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. \nThe first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia\, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada\, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans–the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska\, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia–before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly\, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How\, under conditions of extreme scarcity\, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? \nDrawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region\, as well as from archival sources\, Demuth shows how the social\, the political\, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world\, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy\, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. \nFloating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that immense human needs and ambitions have brought\, and will continue to bring\, to a finite planet. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bathsheba-demuth-floating-coast/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John James w/Jay Deshpande & Noah Warren / The Milk Hours
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Bay Area poet John James for his debut book of poems\, The Milk Hours. Reading with him are local poets Jay Deshpande (The Destroyer in the Glass) & Noah Warren (Love the Stranger). Please join us! \nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical — the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood — the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom — or what — do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \n\nJohn James is the author of Chthonic\, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Gulf Coast\, Poetry Northwest\, Best American Poetry 2017\, and elsewhere. Also a digital collagist\, his visual art is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal\, Quarterly West\, and LIT. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger\, named a top debut of 2015 by Poets & Writers\, and of the chapbook The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). His poems have appeared inBoston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, he has received fellowships or support from Kundiman\, Civitella Ranieri\, Saltonstall Arts Colony\, and the Key West Literary Seminar. Currently\, he is a 2018-2010 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He is at work on a collection of poems and on a book of translations of Egyptian surrealist Georges Henein. \nNoah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass (2016)\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he is currently a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. His poems appear in The Paris Review\, ZYZZYVA\,Poetry\, PEN America\, The New England Review\, Narrative\, The Iowa Review\, The Sewanee Review\, poets.org\, and elsewhere. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Milk Hours\, order below and put your request in the comments field; if you’d like to order Jay’s book\, do the same here; for Noah’s book\, here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-w-jay-deshpande-noah-warren-the-milk-hours/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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