Love in the Chthulucene (Cthulhucene) - Softcover

Caple, Natalee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1928088791 ISBN 13: 9781928088790

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2019

Synopsis

In a collection grappling with #MeToo, climate change, and political turmoil, Natalee Caple strives to discover a way forward in charged times. These poems look to acknowledge struggle, to re-evaluate society, and to rethink our approach to art.

This is a challenging collection, but also a personal one. As Caple explains in her acknowledgements, she “wrote these poems as gifts.” They were gifts to the people who have shaped her as a writer and a thinker, and now they are gifts to readers to show how one might try and find a way to keep creating that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all things, human and non-human.

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From the Back Cover

In this bold new collection, Natalee Caple forges a way forward in dark times. Grappling with #MeToo, climate change and political unrest, Caple gives us poems to help us re-envision our society and recreate our relationships with all who share this earth with us, human and non-human alike.

PRAISE FOR LOVE IN THE CHTHULUCENE (CTHULHUCENE)

"Love in the Chthulucene (Cthulhucene) is a gesture of tentacular tenderness, wry-hooked, affirming relations even across rupture. More than poetry, more than portraits, Caple gives us a gift of practice itself; a practice of intimacy, finding all the soft-bodied and monstrous capacities of moments." - Soraya Peerbaye, author of Tell: Poems for a Girlhood

"Natalee Caple offers a poetry collection that is an authentic, many tentacled gift in a time defined by disconnection, manipulation and greed. There is the generative present of Caple's exploration of the 'poem as gift,' and the compassion, brilliance and strangeness with which she searches and invents. There are her many poetic gifts – her vision, music and border-pushing zeal – and her ability to urge us to challenge and share, to question and thank, to give and not give in." - Daniel Scott Tysdal, author of The Mourner's Book of Albums

About the Author

Natalee Caple is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction. Her latest novel, In Calamity’s Wake, was published in Canada by HarperCollins and in the US by Bloomsbury. Natalee is an associate professor at Brock University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1928088791
• ISBN 13: 9781928088790
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112