{"product_id":"to-2040-by-jorie-graham-9781556597091","title":"To 2040","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2024 Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize, 2024 Shortlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLibrary Journal Best Books of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGuardian Best Books of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinancial Times Best Books of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eElectric Lit Best Books of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe—in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eTo 2040\u003c\/em\u003e, opens in question punctuated as fact: \"Are we \/ extinct yet. Who owns \/ the map.\" In these visionary new poems, Graham is part historian, part cartographer as she plots an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors. In one poem, the speaker is warned by a clairvoyant \"the American experiment will end in 2030.\" Graham shows us our potentially inevitable future soundtracked by sirens among industrial ruins, contemplating the loss of those who inhabited and named them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn sparse lines that move with cinematic precision, these poems pan from overhead views of reshaped shorelines to close-ups of a worm burrowing through earth. Here, we linger, climate crisis on hold, as Graham asks us to sit silently, to hear soil breathe. An urgent open letter to the future, with a habit of looking back, \u003cem\u003eTo 2040\u003c\/em\u003e is narrated by a speaker who reflects on her own mortality—in the glass window of a radiotherapy room, in the first \"claw full of hair\" placed gently on a green shower ledge. In poems that look to 2040 as both future and event-horizon, we leave the collection warned, infinitely wiser, and yet more attentively on edge. \"Inhale. \/ Are you still there \/ the sun says to me.\" And, from the title poem, \"what was yr message, what were u meant to \/ pass on?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537372627180,"sku":"9781556597091","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/82f6ac58836af2d722158c27b12d821a.jpg?v=1776901448","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/to-2040-by-jorie-graham-9781556597091","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}