{"product_id":"extinction-song-paperback","title":"Extinction Song - 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\u003eJohn James\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection that combines fixed poetic forms with long-form meditative lyrics to explore questions of agency in the Anthropocene. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eExtinction Song\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a tender depiction of early parenthood, as the speaker cradles his newborn son while imagining a dystopian climate future. The poems open into a broader consideration of overlapping and interrelated systems, from the confines of received knowledge to the closed circuit of ideology to the circularity of pollutive environmental cycles. Attentive to the levels of sound and of visual architecture, these poems highlight both destruction and unseen possibilities. By turns meditative and probing, and sometimes slyly funny, \u003ci\u003eExtinction Song\u003c\/i\u003e unwinds the perils and the joys of our precarious climate future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn James\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Milk Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, as well as two previous chapbooks, \u003ci\u003eWinter, Glossolalia, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChthonic\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the \u003ci\u003eCutBank \u003c\/i\u003eChapbook Prize. His poems appear in \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoem-a-Day\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and his work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, the Academy of American Poets, and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University. He holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia and is completing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 35\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48527798632697,"sku":"9781961209558","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/E0i13auqfD9781961209558.webp?v=1781389256","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/extinction-song-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}