
- Title : So Little Time: Words and Images for a World in Climate Crisis
- Author : Greg Delanty
- Rating : 4.92 (285 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-9-7
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 224 Pages
- Asin : 0989310469
- Language : English
citizen, and Vermont activist, Greg Delanty, it takes its cue from the grassroots sensibility of Vermont, stripping down decades of unwavering ideals to arrive at an interpretive look at what it means to be 'Green' in an evolving world. It is a call to action, where urgency meets poetry in no uncertain terms, and asks, What hour are we in? Edited by poet, Irish and U. A wo
citizen, and Vermont activist, Greg Delanty, it takes its cue from the grassroots sensibility of Vermont, stripping down decades of unwavering ideals to arrive at an interpretive look at what it means to be 'Green' in an evolving world. It is a call to action, where urgency meets poetry in no uncertain terms, and asks, What hour are we in? Edited by poet, Irish and U. A work of education and art as invigorating as the poets, teachers, and activists who inspired it, So Little Time addresses what it means to take up action for something as simple as good, healthy, and clean living. With a Foreword from John Elder, and poems that feature the work of Greg Delanty and a range of poetry selections, along with quotes from such environmentalists, as BIll McKibben, So Little Time is an interactive and interpretive book that will inspire, enrich, and a call to action in an urgent plea to stop global warming. It stands on a fHe has received many awards, most recently a Guggenheim for poetry.
. His Collected Poems 1986-2006 is out from the Oxford Poet's series of Carcanet Press. His most recent books include Reading the Mountains of Home (Harvard University Press, 1998), The Frog Run (Milkweed Editions, 2002). Greg Delanty, was born in Cork City, Ireland, in 1958 and lived in Cork until 1986. His poems are widely anthologized including the recent Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, The Norton Introduction to Poetry. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a US and Irish Citizen and teaches at Saint MThis superb volume will do exactly that." -- --Bill McKibben, Author, Environmentalist, Founder of 350. "Environmentalists long ago won the scientific battle, but we needed to reach people's hearts as well.His life was very long, and his art very wide, and it is to Sabine Rewald's great credit that she has succeeded in concentrating the essence of his oeuvre into a manageable compass. No wonder it took three months to get approval from the Institutional (Ethical) Human Research Board!To be frank, my drive to learn more about illnesses not even in textbooks started taking more time than patient care. A good guide as well as an adviser. To bad they don't print them in hardback anymore.. Outstanding in every respect--especially when you consider how often books like this tend to go off the rails, for so many reasons (too didactic/preachy, sketchy interrelationship between words and images, mediocre layout and design, etc. this is a powerful must read Book ASAP and a reminder of natural disasters and how to be prepared for and what to do. The book states it assumes you know the 1st year of calculus and how to solve some ordinary differential equations. Though mice wrapped in flannel for sore throats etc is a little too off the wall for me!! its still intesting reading how people came to the ideas for these remedies, and though we rely very much on chemical cures, so many are still based around old

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