We Mammals in Hospitable Times - Softcover

Martin, Jynne Dilling

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9780887485961: We Mammals in Hospitable Times

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ISBN 10: 0887485960 ISBN 13: 9780887485961

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015

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Martin rushes headlong into an awfully dangerous planet: a spinning rock in outer space called Earth, where the smallest zoo animals are forgotten in fires, cats flee vacuums, lovers betray and abandon one another, basements begin flooding as the globe warms, and an adopted parrot shrieks unfamiliar names.

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"[. . .] Mordant and knowing, elegiac and merry, cosmic and cellular, her work is a reminder of how truly mysterious and miraculous our world is."--Curtis Sittenfeld

"[. . .] What an invigorating, intelligent, and tonic testimony to the art of curiosity and the power of poetry."--Dean Young

"I will say this plainly: I love Jynne Dilling Martin's poems. Mordant and knowing, elegiac and merry, cosmic and cellular, her work is a reminder of how truly mysterious and miraculous our world is. She seamlessly stitches together the past and the present, the scientific and the subjective; with one line, she'll rip you apart, and with the next, she'll make you whole again."--New York Times bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld

"With a rare expansiveness that is keenly felt, heroically composed, and constantly surprising, We Mammals in Hospitable Times guides us through the sudden exultations and terrors of wide-ranging explorations. In their levities and plunges, these poems make sharp and poignant the unavoidable perils and rewards of being open to this world. What an invigorating, intelligent, and tonic testimony to the art of curiosity and the power of poetry."--Dean Young

"The exquisitely imagined poems in We Mammals in Hospitable Times offer a unique portrait of our strange world, introducing aliens baffled by our inhospitable actions toward our planet and a scientist who 'drills a hole in the sea snail's shell / and slides a miniature stethoscope inside, listens for the heartbeat.' Martin's poems are sensitive as a stethoscope, insistent as a drilled hole, mournful but also threaded with the desire for understanding and transformation. These poems present meticulous and mysterious acts of hope and sadness. We Mammals in Hospitable Times should be read by every human on the planet, read out loud to the penguins, and launched into outer space on the next Voyager spacecraft."--Matthea Harvey

"Jynne Dilling Martin is my favorite young American poet. Her dispatches from the South Pole make life on our disappearing planet bearable again." --New York Times bestselling author Gary Shteyngart

"An extraordinary poet."--Time Out New York

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About the Author:

JYNNE DILLING MARTIN'S poetry has appeared in Granta, The Boston Review, Ploughshares, Slate, and on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Her nonfiction has appeared in Glamour, Food & Wine, and The Antarctic Sun. She was a 2013 Antarctica Writer in Residence and lives in New York City.

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