{"product_id":"b-rds-paperback","title":"B\/Rds - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBéatrice Szymkowiak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eB\/RDS\u003c\/i\u003e endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon's \u003ci\u003eBirds of America\u003c\/i\u003e (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of \u003ci\u003eBirds of America\u003c\/i\u003e as an archival cage. The author selectively erases words from the textual cage to reveal its ambiguity and the complex relationship between humanity and the other-than-human world. As the cage disappears, leaving a space for scarce, lyrical poems, birds break free, their voices inextricably entangled with ours. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Prose poems written in the author's own words and prompted by the erasure process are also interspersed throughout the collection. These migratory poems, like ripples, trace the link between past and present and reveal the human-nature disconnect at the root cause of environmental and social problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Along its five movements, \u003ci\u003eB\/RDS\u003c\/i\u003e also explores how we can reimagine our relationship to environment through language within new frameworks of interconnectedness. Thus, as the collection resists the distinction between nature and culture on which traditional nature poetry relies, it also acts as an ecopoetic manifesto. It suggests that a critical, lyrical poetry could contribute to ecological awareness by singing humanity back within nature. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBéatrice Szymkowiak\u003c\/b\u003e is a French-American writer and scholar. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2017, and obtained a PhD in English\/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2022. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRED ZONE\u003c\/i\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a poetry chapbook, as well as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Contest. Her work also has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTerrain.org\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePortland Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOmniVerse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 70\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701943504959,"sku":"9781647691158","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0562da127b6dd2e50a6c3051ee8b47ae.webp?v=1765022547","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/b-rds-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}