A Year of Misreading the Wildcats by Orchid Tierney (English) Paperback Book

Description: A Year of Misreading the Wildcats by Orchid Tierney a year of misreading the wildcats unravels a sprawling, year-long encounter with petroleum that began with a strip of plastic, caught between the branches of a maidenhair tree. This hybrid collection drills the archive for film scores, fiction, and scholarship, recovering the intertextual saturations of plastic and plankton, oil and oceans. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "This book is evidence of unusually ebullient thinking about the spongy and interbred archives of petropolitics & necropolitics--life and death produced for/from the manna of fossil fuels--which Tierney parses, imbricates, and translates into poems that are wet and living, petrified and stony, made of paper and people, just like the range of archives she plumbs....This is a work of remarkable insight, confident tonal variance, and playful intelligence." - Divya Victor, author of Kith"This haunting and profound collection explores the traces of petroleum refineries, factories, landfills, train stations, nuclear power plants, and other sacrifice zones in the United States, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and the Pacific Islands. Throughout, Tierney creates an archive of oily verse, cut-up essays, textual collage, and actual polaroids to capture the elastic entanglements between humans and the planet, between carbonauts and the plastisphere. As companion readers, we are guided into the troubling Urf and urged to discuss: Can poetry help us navigate unseen ecologies? Can poetry become a carbon sink? Can poetry metabolize the world so that we can continue to grow and love with concussive tenderness?" --Craig Santos Perez"a year of misreading the wildcats follows intrepid petronaut Orchid Tierney as she painstakingly assembles a nonce archive of the waste natures that coagulate at the watery peripheries of northeastern U.S. cities like Philadelphia, Camden, and Boston. What moves me most about these carbifereous lamentations of plastimodernity is that Tierneys docunaut is no impartial archon, but rather a deeply intricated, implicated, and impassioned environmental advocate and cultural critic. Knowing that "the poetics I have imagined are not sustainable, not extreme enough to handle the carbon in the atmosphere or the plastic in the oceans, she asks the most difficult question facing us at this historical moment: what does it mean to know our extinction, and do it anyway? In place of an answer, this book offers a stance, a way of relating to the great acceleration of waste with which were all complicit: in such traces, I lung with ash, /ambulate with love and venom." --Brian Teare, author of Doomstead DaysExcerpts / previous versions appear at Radioactive Moat and Pacifica Review: wildcat: a boring, an aperture, an exploratory well. a year of misreading the wildcats unravels a sprawling, year-long encounter with petroleum that began with a strip of plastic, caught between the branches of a maidenhair tree. This hybrid collection of poetry, prose and Polaroid photography drills the archive for film scores, fiction, and scholarship to recover the intertextual saturations of plastic and plankton, oil and oceans. Toggling between phantom islands and garbage gyres, the Pacific and Pennsylvania, a year of misreading the wildcats documents the impossible project of both environmental literature and photography to critique and catalogue disaster. This collection is a refusal for a narrative, where climate change denies the islands one. Author Biography Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa-New Zealand. She is the author of five chapbooks: Brachiation (GumTree Press, 2012), The World in Small Parts (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), Gallipoli Diaries (GaussPDF, 2017), blue doors (Belladonna* Press, 2018), and ocean plastic (BlazeVOX, 2019). In 2016, TrollThread published her full-length dictation of the Book of Margery Kempe, Earsay. She is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. Review "This book is evidence of unusually ebullient thinking about the spongy and interbred archives of petropolitics & necropolitics--life and death produced for/from the manna of fossil fuels--which Tierney parses, imbricates, and translates into poems that are wet and living, petrified and stony, made of paper and people, just like the range of archives she plumbs....This is a work of remarkable insight, confident tonal variance, and playful intelligence." - Divya Victor, author of Kith"This haunting and profound collection explores the traces of petroleum refineries, factories, landfills, train stations, nuclear power plants, and other sacrifice zones in the United States, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and the Pacific Islands. Throughout, Tierney creates an archive of oily verse, cut-up essays, textual collage, and actual polaroids to capture the elastic entanglements between humans and the planet, between carbonauts and the plastisphere. As companion readers, we are guided into the troubling Urf and urged to discuss: Can poetry help us navigate unseen ecologies? Can poetry become a carbon sink? Can poetry metabolize the world so that we can continue to grow and love with concussive tenderness?" --Craig Santos Perez"a year of misreading the wildcats follows intrepid petronaut Orchid Tierney as she painstakingly assembles a nonce archive of the wasteof plastimodernity is that Tierneys docunaut is no impartial archon, but rather a deeply intricated, implicated, and impassioned environmental advocate and cultural critic. Knowing that "the poetics I have imagined are not sustainable, not extreme enough to handle the carbon in the atmosphere or the plastic in the oceans, she asks the most difficult question facing us at this historical moment: what does it mean to know our extinction, and do it anyway? In place of an answer, this book offers a stance, a way of relating to the great acceleration of waste with which were all complicit: in such traces, I lung with ash, /ambulate with love and venom." --Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days Details ISBN1946031577 Pages 110 Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 1946031577 ISBN-13 9781946031570 Format Paperback Publication Date 2019-10-16 Imprint Operating System Illustrations 33 Illustrations Author Orchid Tierney Publisher Operating System UK Release Date 2019-10-16 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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