Zigzagging across the globe, Kate Sutherland's fourth book is poetry by way of collage: pieced-together excerpts from travellers' journals, ships' logs, textbooks and manuals, individual testimony, and fairy and folk tales that tell stories of the extinction of various species, and of the evolution of human understanding of--and culpability for--the phenomenon. Across its three sections, Sutherland draws identifiable connections between various animal extinctions and human legacies of imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and misogyny, charting the ways in which they juxtapose one another while impacting the natural order of things. A trenchant critique of humanity's disastrous effects on this world, The Bones Are There is also a celebration of incredible creatures, all sadly lost to us. It honours their memory by demanding accountability and encouraging resistance, so that we might stave off future irrevocable loss and preserve what wonders that remain.
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- CaOOCEL
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781771666275 9781771666251
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.S872
- LCCN Item number
- B66 2020eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (89 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00082376 (OCoLC)1176223426 (CaOOCEL)460222
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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