Welcome to the Anthropocene (Paperback)

Paperback. Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Majors most persistent questionWhere do we fit in the universe?is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic significance.Now, welcome to the Anthropoceneyou battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam,a blue pearl on the necklace of the planets.This home. Clouds, oceans, life forms span itfrom pole to pole, within a peel of airas thin as lace lapped round an apple. Fairand fragile bounded sphere, yet strangely toughthis world that life could never love enough.And yet its loving-care has been entrustedto a feckless species, more investedin the partial, while the total goes unnoticed. from Welcome to the Anthropocene Poetry, science, ecological calamity, and human-driven climate change. Where do we fit in the universe? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…