The language assigned to climate reality reflects thought and drives expectation. The “change” in climate change is inaccurate in its alleged neutrality, while “crisis” in the preferable climate crisis evokes personal and social crises that eventually end, norms restored or data points returned to. The market recovers and the sports car gets returned, but there is little restitution possible for this earth. The only end of crisis that seems possible now is the end of the word “crisis” in the evacuation of all language, when its makers and users can no longer exist. |
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"A Conversation with Olivia Muenz"
"In this moment, I think a neurodivergent brain is much more respectful of the inherent multiplicity of the world and much better at resisting order-making (which feels contradictory with some of our tendencies toward rigid thinking or pattern recognition). Boundaries are more blurred, more flexible....Here, and everywhere, the “you” and “I” and “we” needed to be containers rather than something singular."
via THE ADROIT JOURNAL |
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Andrew Bertaina on Courtney LeBlanc's "Her Whole Bright Life"
"I have always been attracted to visceral writing, that which cuts through or illuminates life as it is lived. Perhaps raising children has made me less patient with ornamentation for its own sake. So, I was delighted to sink into LeBlanc’s world, poems about the death of her father and her relationship to her body, poems that are raw and unvarnished in their honesty about grief, about loss, about the management of the body, all those things we cannot ever really control but still try desperately to." |
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