Obviously, no course could contain all of these possibilities – this is just a menu of possibilities.
Fiction - TC Boyle, A Friend of the Earth - Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather - Nathaniel Hill, Odds Against Tomorrow - Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (and Talents) - Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam trilogy – prob. Year of the Flood, if I had to choose one - Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus - Omar El Akkad, American War - John Lanchester, The Wall - Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City - Megan Hunter, The End We Start From - Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God Poetry - Big Energy Poets (Cli-Po anthology) - Kyce Bello, Refugia - Craig Perez’s recent and forthcoming work - Arcadia Project Anthology (Postmodern Pastoral) - Black Nature (anthology), Camille Dungy ed. - Allison Cobb, After We All Died & her forthcoming book re: plastic - Stephen Collis, Once in Blockadia - Madhur Anand, New Index for Predicting Catastrophes Nonfiction -The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh - The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells, esp. part 3 - “Uncivilization” (the Dark Mountain manifesto) - The End of Ice, Dahr jamail - selections from the Carbon Ideologies trilogy of Wm. T. Vollman - maybe part of This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein - maybe something by Rebecca Solnit to balance out all the negativity - A Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (essay collection) - Facing Gaia (Latour) - Ends of the World, Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro - Chakrobarty on history and climate change - Christian Parenti, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2012) - Peter Brannen, Ends of the World: volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth’s past mass extinctions - Roy Scranton, We’re Doomed, Now What? (excerpt of first essay) Books, literary essays, plays, poems, dance, music, stories, articles, etc, I haven’t included? Please add them in the comments!
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Dale Nimz
10/15/2019 07:15:39 am
Perhaps an excerpt from "Call of the Reed Warbler," by Australian Charles Massey. Also American Fred Provenza. Donella Meadows offers an excellent approach to comprehending the problem and taking constructive action.
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I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |