{"product_id":"be-still-mere-molecule-paperback-1","title":"Be Still Mere Molecule - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca A. Durham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBe Still Mere Molecule\u003c\/em\u003e draws us in in jubilation, in the squishy ecstasy of emergence: \"fallen\/bodies\/tumble into connection\/sedges cloak the muck\/step in, step in\" - and we do! Seducing with 'mycelial language, ' this deeply grounded collection invites us to go on a field trip with a luxuriant botanist who sings plant names into a 'web of nurture.' Here's a weft of pain\/breath, the luster of a pearl's lacquer, pleading birds, quartz cliffs refracting the spark-sheen. Rebecca Durham calls to the tendrils in a deep ecopoetic symphony, and they respond in glory: \"You rise to cultivate these green galaxies\/like rootlets sprung from a stellate maze.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003c\/strong\u003ePetra Kuppers, author of \u003cem\u003eEco Soma\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDiver Beneath the Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Durham's most recent collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eBe Still Mere Molecule\u003c\/em\u003e, is a wonder. Durham is equal parts poet and scientist. The speaker is an observer of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemotional depth, profoundly engaged with the physical world. The scientist observes and names. The poet, attuned to sensory and tonal connections, understands how the shepherding of sound can create unique subliminal tones. The poet hears the musicality intrinsic to the language of science. Nomenclature becomes a concordance of cadence. She shares a world that few of us have the vocabulary or knowledge to travel on our own. Durham wants to share with us how she sees our world. Take a walk with Rebecca Durham. Let her share the world she is discovering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Gerald Wagoner, author of \u003cem\u003eWhen Nothing Wild Remains \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e A Month of Someday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBe Still Mere Molecule\u003c\/em\u003e is a deep and joyful exploration of the natural sciences prismed through the lens of poetry. Using her extensive knowledge of botany and ecology, Durham deftly integrates scientific terms, equations, and chemical structures in her poems, creating a rich \"mycelial language\" that binds concepts and processes from nature with themes of wonder, longing, and environmental loss. Durham speaks with scientific precision and emotional urgency about environmental threats as she chronicles the \"blind hum of hostile elements\" in the human body or how \"the golden-crowned kinglet collides with glass\". Yet, this collection is also \"a chant for wholeness\" permeated by enduring beauty and resilience as Durham reminds us \"at long last the ice recedes \/ and the first bird-wakes ripple the open water\" and how \"joy must be self-taught \/ again and again, continuous.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Laurel Anderson, plant ecologist and poet\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353643434233,"sku":"9781965412107","price":20.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/nAuuvXahZ79781965412107_3022242d-1dfe-4850-8484-851b9d2e2ce2.webp?v=1769825535","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/be-still-mere-molecule-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}