Endlings
Subtitle: a collection of poems about extinct animals
By: Joanna Lilley
Publisher: Turnstone Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Winnipeg, MB
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780888016898
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Extinct animals; Poetry
Description: Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead. In poems that are lyrical, exact, and deeply melancholic, Joanna Lilley demands audience for the final moments of animal extinction. From the zebra-horse quagga and chiding dodo, to the giant woolly mammoth and delicate Xerces blue butterfly, the haunting, urgent words of these "endlings" cut to the bone to expose the brutality of Nature and the devastating repercussions of human ignorance and intent, while giving hope that our humanity will help save what remains."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also in electronic formats.