The Seeds (eBook)

Cecily Parks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
100 Seiten
Alice James Books (Verlag)
978-1-949944-49-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Seeds confronts the ecological paradox of homemaking in an environment domesticity rejectsone of mess, disease, and everyday violenceto explore the equal distress and delight entangled in caring for a family, a new home, and the earth that sustains them. Cecily Parks draws on literary sources ranging from nursery rhymes to The Odyssey to examine how we form relationships with the natural world. The lessons of these poems are in processes that underscore humanity's power to alter nature and powerlessness to control it: an epiphyte's fall from a live oak, an urban creek's response to drought, or a roof rat's nest-building in the attic of the poet's home. Motherhood positions the speaker to revisit her girlhood relation to the earth, and as her two young daughters exemplify the ease with which children can become nature's intimates, the speaker must confront the ecological disturbances that arise from her own attempts to prevent upset to the garden through aggression by weeds, animals, and weather.The Seeds deconstructs what it means to love nature, especially when the natural world challenges our desires for beauty, abundance, and safety. Looking to more-than-human guides with an open mind and heart, Parks' third book is a collection of unconventional contemporary environmental histories, in which places become biological and emotional primers for those who will inherit them.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 220 x 220 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: Caring for nature • Child-Parent Relationship • climate change • domesticity • ecological paradox • ecological wisdom • Ecology • Environmental Crisis • Environmental history • environmental poetry • Family • feminist ecology • literary references • Motherhood • natural beauty • Nature • Nature’s disturbance • Nature’s intimacy • power and powerlessness • The Natural World • Urban Nature
• ISBN-10: 1-949944-49-2 / 1949944492
• ISBN-13: 978-1-949944-49-5 / 9781949944495