{"product_id":"9781939678010","title":"One Hundred White Pelicans","description":"Who but Robin Chapman would think of Planck's equation, Einstein and quanta while\u003cp\u003echopping onions, the origins of the universe while pork fat sizzles in the pan? With a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escientist's knowledge and a poet's eye for beauty and correspondences, she tracks the stars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand considers the fate of the earth; hers is an acute, observant gaze that moves with ease\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom paleontology to the private lives of rabbits in poems that join the work of intellect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Eleanor Wilner, author of Reversing the Spell and The Girl with Bees in Her Hair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn One Hundred White Pelicans, Robin Chapman continues her compelling poetic exploration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the natural world. As she moves from Wisconsin to France, from broad landscapes to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe microscopic, from the news that spills out of our televisions to what biology tell us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill be the fate of our troubled world, the scientist in her explains while the poet gives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eus hope. One Hundred White Pelicans is a wise and wondrous book that will make you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworried for our world and long for its redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of Cinema Muto, Dog Angel, and World as Dictionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of my favorite words is 'redolent,' and these poems are certainly that: redolent of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea damp Adirondack trail, and of an imagined parched future. A future that we can still\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprevent, but only with great acts of the imagination and the will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, Deep Economy, and The End of Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Robin Chapman's One Hundred White Pelicans interweave a story of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome of nature's most sacred treasures, now threatened by looming environmental crises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapman's ideas are so rich, and in ten or so lines she cuts to the essence of scientific\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econcepts and heated debates. From oil disasters and the gulf coast dead zone, to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimminent end of arctic settlements and the pine beetle's path of destruction spurred by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eglobal warming, Chapman lays bare today's inconvenient truths. Her poem, \"Cassandra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon Prozac\" makes clear that solutions abound, yet even the simplest elude our grasp in a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld divided by competing interests. Yet Chapman delivers some \"flashes of hope\" that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecelebrate successful innovations - simple in design yet large in impact that can \"seed the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efuture\" and provide hope in the face of today's challenges. In short, Chapman's collection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof poems represents one of the most concise, yet penetrating, assessments of the state of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eour world that I have ever read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Jonathan Patz, Professor and Director, UW-Madison Global Health Institute\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tebot Bach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49860513366256,"sku":"9781939678010","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939678010","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}