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Strangers Rebecca Tamas

Strangers By Rebecca Tamas

Strangers by Rebecca Tamas


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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. In Strangers, Rebecca Tamas explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times.

Strangers Summary

Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman by Rebecca Tamas

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. In Strangers, Rebecca Tamas explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times. From 'On Watermelon' to 'On Grief', Tamas's essays are exhilarating to read in their radical and original exploration of the links between the environmental, the political, the folkloric and the historical. From thinking stones, to fairgrounds, from colliding planets to transformative cockroaches, Tamas's lyrical perspective takes the reader on a journey between body, land and spirit-exploring a new ecological vision for our fractured, fragile world.

Strangers Reviews

'A fascinating, lyrical exploration of the eco-political, from human and non-human bodies to landscapes. Tamas' essays are deeply rooted in folklore and the fragility of existence. A stunning work of enquiry and eloquence.' -Sinead Gleeson; 'So full of insight, compassion and reason' -Anthony Anaxagorou; 'Bursting with intellectual generosity. Deep wide roots and radical shoots. ' -Max Porter; 'exciting and clear-eyed' -Melissa Harrison; 'Rebecca Tamas has the ability to bring together our planet's environment with the ecology of the imagination, to retrieve silent life-forms alongside forgotten intellectual movements. This creates a shifting perspective in her essays which illuminates while giving unexpected pleasure.' -Amit Chaudhuri; 'To read Rebecca Tamas is to feel weirdly, uncannily creaturely, and to see all around us as pulsing with meaning.' -Katherine Angel; 'Strangers is a much-needed lesson in how to love--unconditionally and immeasurably--a dying world.' -Jessica J Lee; 'Erudite yet intimate, moving yet fierce, Rebecca Tamas' hungry exploration of the world - occurring at the porous boundary between literary forms - made me rethink what it means to be humane.' -Olivia Sudjic; 'Rebecca Tamas writes searingly on loss, transformation, art and the body. Her writing is tender and sharp, brimming with heat' -Nina Mingya Powles; 'Strangers is an extraordinary, essential book. Both quiet and loud. Strange yet explicit.' -Sara Baume; 'These essays are sharp, purposeful, moving and strange: necessary writing for now.' -Jenn Ashworth; 'The writing in these essays is luminous and urgent, intensely intimate and wildly global. Strangers is an intricate exploration of environmental precarity, literary strangeness, and the importance of the nonhuman.' -Naomi Booth; 'Strangers is a work of generous, optimistic curiosity, one which forgoes the easy promise of a world to come and invites us instead into a relationship of charged feral intimacy with a world that is already here.' -Sam Byers; 'Tamas builds a world so intimate for us here, teaching us how to unlearn and relearn, relive and relove.' -Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal; 'This text is an echoing, unstoppable bell.' -Caught by the River (book of the month); 'A passionate and poetic exercise in empathy for everything.' -Between Two Books

About Rebecca Tamas

Rebecca Tamas' poetry and criticism has been published in 'The White Review,' 'The Chicago Review,' 'Some Such,' The London Review of Books', and 'Granta', amongst others. She is the editor, with Sarah Shin, of 'Spells: Occult Poetry for the 21st Century', published by Ignota Books. Her first full length collection of poetry, 'WITCH', came out from Penned in the Margins in 2019. It was a Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation, a Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times and White Review 'Book of the Year,' and a Paris Review Staff Pick. She is a former winner of the Manchester Poetry Prize, and the recipient of a Fenton Arts Trust Early Career Residency. Rebecca currently works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University, where she co-convenes The York Centre for Writing Poetry Series. She is represented by Emma Paterson, at Aitken and Alexander.

Table of Contents

On Watermelon--On Hospitality--On Panpscychism--On Greenness--On Pain--On Grief--On Mystery

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NGR9781916060890
9781916060890
1916060897
Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman by Rebecca Tamas
New
Paperback
Makina Books
20201008
114
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