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Well, for me, these moments would occur through the positive interactions made possible by love and respect for other people, creatures and the environment.\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003eEileen R. Tabios\u003c\/strong\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHUMANITY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, we are presented with humanity's explorations, often struggles, with itself in a variety of contexts. From the anthology's contributors--poets, environmental advocates, an ethnomusicologist, a physician, an ethnoecologist, a music minister, a clergywoman, a fictionist, and multiculturalists--we glimpse an overall picture of strength and fragility, of empathy, and myriad hopes. #humanitytheanthology #humanity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdvance words: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The writings in \u003cem\u003eHumanity\u003c\/em\u003e are global in scope; but rather than explicating or attempting to impose a global system or authoritarian state upon the reader, these works run on thoughtful exploration of human feeling, experience, and action. Here you will find encounters between profoundly different cultures, the authors working their way through threads of humanity or animality and mythology like fibers twisted in varied textures and hues throughout a shawl. Here you will find views into personal experiences that have shaped each writer, sometimes causing pain, grief, anger, or wonder. In a world where humans are increasingly becoming aware of their own destructive impulses, a sense of urgency, though sometimes subtle, lies behind the lines. What, in this human condition, is worthwhile? The writers burrow deeply into memories, some following clues toward connection and empathy--others seeking clarity of thought and action--because if anything is clearer now than ever before, it's that consequences can and will happen, and change is required; resistance cannot be shallow, but depends on both openness and carefully thought-out acts that will carry us forward with awareness of history and all its complex entanglements, as well as its possible futures. --\u003cstrong\u003eJean Vengua\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePrau\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCorporeal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50399634424081,"sku":"CIN1732302510VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51048455569681,"sku":"NIN9781732302518","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52476090155281,"sku":"NLS9781732302518","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1732302510.jpg?v=1751153453"},{"product_id":"dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times-book-eileen-r-tabios-9781939901194","title":"Dovelion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom multi-awarded poet, writer, artist, and editor Eileen R. 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Glimpses are provided of spy warfare, internet-based rebellions, and the insidious effects of beauty pageants. Relief is provided through Elena's love of Wikipedia and the world's most simple but delicious recipe for adobo. 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Sometimes intensely personal, sometimes fiercely political, Tabios plunges the reader into a universe of ecstatic images as she repeatedly attempts to freeze each 'inevitable stutter of love.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Mary Mackey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLayering memory soaked through with heart \/ home sickness where 'paper is too \/ soft a field for your hand leaving my waist, ' Eileen Tabios's \u003cem\u003eHIRAETH: TERCETS FROM THE LAST ARCHIPELAGO\u003c\/em\u003e mesmerizes. With its title borrowing the Welsh word for the feeling of homesickness tinged with grief expressed for dear ones departed, the collection is partly inspired by British painter Andrew Bick's series of multi-layered wax paintings wherein each layer presents new imagery as well as ghostly images of older layers. Just as an Archipelago Sea is studded with so many isles, each of these poems arrives so 'studded' with some lines intentionally faded out as though possessed by the 'Unreasonable ghost of a ghost \/ who'd persuaded the world its name is Unicorn'. There are recollections, imagined or not, of 'poetry readings where I ripped pages \/ from my books. Sometimes I autographed them; sometimes \/ I crumpled them into balls I'd toss towards the audience as \/ if they were money or my underwear' seeking 'to alchemize the reader into \/ the author ' Maybe the poet, too, needs to be reminded out of amnesia: 'I forgot my poetry is going to change the world . I forgot my words are holy. \/ I forgot my words will lift you--all of you --towards Joy'. But readers should never forget the fruit of such devotion to poetry. 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Each sequence in this collection vastly differs--from asemic chance operations composed of Tabios's plucked white hairs let fall into place (recalling how Duchamp composed 3 Standard Stoppages) to a description of each poem-object in a destroyed mail art correspondence of sculptural visual poems. Tabios's openness to possibility has created poems radiating with life which are as heavy as they are celebratory. If you're looking for bubblegum, move on--here is something entirely different for your eyes to chew on.\u003cbr\u003e --Sacha Archer, author of Detour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eileen Tabios takes part by taking apart then seaming beyond seeming. Commas as visuals take form, flight, shape. Real lines of once alive things plucked from hair inventing poetry without genuflection. Achromotricia re(de)fines asemia, emerging a new version of whiteness against cloth backdrops. Finding poetry as poetry is. 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