{"product_id":"9781772123685","title":"Welcome to the Anthropocene","description":"Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where 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.\u003cp\u003eNow, welcome to the Anthropocene you battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam,\u003cbr\u003ea blue pearl on the necklace of the planets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis home. Clouds, oceans, life forms span it from pole to pole, within a peel of air as thin as lace lapped round an apple. Fair and fragile bounded sphere, yet strangely tough—\u003cbr\u003ethis world that life could never love enough.\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet its loving-care has been entrusted to a feckless species, more invested in the partial, while the total goes unnoticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— from “Welcome to the Anthropocene”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Alberta Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059117048048,"sku":"9781772123685","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781772123685_p0.jpg?v=1763708875","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781772123685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}