What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium (eBook)

Kim Simonsen (Autor)

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2025
200 Seiten
Deep Vellum Publishing (Verlag)
9781646053858 (ISBN)

Infos

Nordic Council Literature Prize nominee Kim Simonsen introduces a new poetics to Faroese literature rooted in natural history, philosophy, and the materiality of all things.The rhetorical title of this collection posits the crisis that is underway. Simonsen asks: as a species among species, all composed of the matter of the universe, how has our compulsion toclassify everything hierarchically estranged us from ourselves, each other, and Earthsecosystems? Simonsen challenges our anthropocentric pursuit of knowledge, exploringhumankinds relationship with itself as an element of the natural world. What good does it do fora person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium follows the struggles of itsnarrator as he reckons with intensifying estrangement from his fellow organisms, graduallyturning to the greater kinship of matter to find continuity, connection, and solace.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: Anthropocentrism • Biology • Categorization • Consciousness • Ecopoetry • Environment • Environmental Crisis • Faroe Islands • Faroese • Geography • geopoetry • historic images • Illustration • Landscape • medical plates • microbes • national book award of the faroe islands • natural world • North Atlantic • Object-oriented philosophy • Philosophy • poetry in translation • Scientific • Spacetime • spec fic • species among species • speculative • Third Millennium • translated • Translation • Virus • Ways of knowing
• ISBN-13: 9781646053858 / 9781646053858