Iceland Is Melting and So Are You
Iceland Is Melting and So Are You
Marilyn Stanley
, Jude Castillo
, Melissa Kohlman
, Eli Cherney
, Linda Leitch
, Elissa Clemens
, Karen Nordrum
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Natasa Ilic
, Barry Kazimer
, Deb Philippon
, Cassandra Schiemann
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sharlene Ketelaar
, Noelle Walsh
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Andrea Pole
, Dawn Macdonald
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Sarah Schwartz
, LJ Law
, Lisa Mallia
, Katie Olivier
, Jacob Cebulak
, Yolande Thivierge
, Megan Brodie
, Vanessa S
, BJ Underwood
, Deanna Radford
, Robert Hykawy
, Patricia Johnson
, Chris Carvalho
, Kim Cappellina
, Joann Horgan
, Melanie Solar
, Kim Wiggins
, Paula Ritchie
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Lara Maynard
, Laurie Burns
, Bob Paterson-watt
, Maria Mclean
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Megan Bishop
, Christopher Evans
, Sara Conway
, Janet Meisner
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Chris Lantz
, Janice Cournoyer
, Lauren Seal
, Debra Chandler
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Randi Ann Doll
, Andrea Gillespie
, Nadia Cescato
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The urgency of the climate emergency is explored in this latest collection by award-winning poet Talya Rubin. It offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of the natural world, our human interior, and the relationship between the two.
In these poems, human and wild meet in everyday encounters: the melting of ice sheets and fathoming ecological disaster while listening to news reports on the radio; moments of childhood ice skating and unrequited love alongside geological formations and weather patterns. Underlying the collection is a mild sense of absurdity, one that mirrors our existential plight of continuing on in the face of what feels like impossibility.
Iceland Is Melting and So Are You asks us to consider what we have kept frozen and unexamined within us and—in doing so—recognize the complex grief and wonder we face in considering the end of the human epoch.
