On Extraction Extinction poems, excerpt #2
the full essay appears in The Kenyon Review, summer 2024
excerpt #2 from my essay “On Extraction Extinction Poems,” The Kenyon Review, summer 2024
As early as 1967, the Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska put some of her thoughts about what we evasively call an endangered species into her poem “Tarsier.”She did so quietly, slyly, through the voice of an animal that humans apparently consider of little …
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