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    Iceland Is Melting and So Are You
    Iceland Is Melting and So Are You
    Iceland Is Melting and So Are You
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    Iceland Is Melting and So Are You

    By Talya Rubin

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    The urgency of the climate emergency is explored in this latest collection by award-winning poet Talya Rubin. It offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of the natural world, our human interior, and the relationship between the two.

    In these poems, human and wild meet in everyday encounters: the melting of ice sheets and fathoming ecological disaster while listening to news reports on the radio; moments of childhood ice skating and unrequited love alongside geological formations and weather patterns. Underlying the collection is a mild sense of absurdity, one that mirrors our existential plight of continuing on in the face of what feels like impossibility.

    Iceland Is Melting and So Are You asks us to consider what we have kept frozen and unexamined within us and—in doing so—recognize the complex grief and wonder we face in considering the end of the human epoch.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateOct 12, 2021
    ISBN9781771667234
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      Book preview

      Iceland Is Melting and So Are You - Talya Rubin

      Blue, green and white stylized image with the cover type blurring and sharpening in waves through the image. It reads: Iceland is melting and so are you: poems. Author name runs vertically up the side: Talya Rubin.Iceland Is Melting and So Are YouTitle page: Iceland Is Melting and So Are You by Talya Rubin. Published by Book*hug Press, Toronto 2021

      FIRST EDITION

      copyright © 2021 by Talya Rubin

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Title: Iceland is melting and so are you / Talya Rubin.

      Names: Rubin, Talya, author.

      Description: First edition. | Poems.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210289325 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210289333

      ISBN 9781771667227 (softcover)

      ISBN 9781771667234 (EPUB)

      ISBN 9781771667241 (PDF)

      Classification: LCC PS8635.U296 I24 2021 | DDC C811/.6—dc23

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of the Canada Council

      for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Book*hug Press also acknowledges the support of the

      Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Government of Ontario through

      the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Book Fund.

      Logos: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Creates, Government of Canada

      Book*hug Press acknowledges that the land on which we operate is the traditional territory

      of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa,

      the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. We recognize the enduring presence of many

      diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and are grateful for the opportunity

      to meet, work, and learn on this territory.

      Contents

      Halftitle

      Title page

      Copyright

      Dead Ice

      The Snow Queen

      Iceland

      Disarticulation

      Road Trip

      Iceland Is Melting and So Are You

      Dead Ice

      Ice Fields

      Forest Bathing

      Geology

      She Sells Seashells

      First Love

      Escape Route

      Brightening Event

      Aftermath

      Scattered Blossoms

      A Boot on the Side of the Highway

      Tidewater

      The Beginning of Things

      Old Movie

      Greenland

      Fox in the Snow

      The Objection of Furniture

      Context

      Bleaching Event

      The Disappearance of Clouds

      Dead Wood

      The Lucky Ones

      The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers

      This Was No Garden

      Taste The Feeling™

      Bears and People

      The Dictionary of Lost Words

      Drift

      Beloved

      The Theory of Everything

      Concise Definitions Help You Choose the Best Word

      Time Freeze

      Timekeeper

      The Disappearance of Clouds Ii

      A Pointed Instrument For Piercing Small Holes

      The Boundaries of Perception

      The Whale Had Swallowed Plastic

      Chatter Marks

      Equations Of Us All

      Plague

      Grounded

      Hymn of the Big Wheel

      Just Waving

      On the Motion of Bodies

      Eggs

      Let’s Never Forget to Love the Roses

      Take Two

      Welcome to a New Day

      Notes and Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Colophon

      Dead Ice

      The Snow Queen

      What if a shard of tainted glass alighted

      in your eye and the world went white—

      a fouled lullaby

      And the girl of your dreams turned out

      to be the Snow

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