Graham, Jorie: [To] the Last [Be] Human

Foreword by Robert MacFarland (Copper Canyon Press, paperback) Publication Date: September 6th, 2022 Publisher Marketing: [To] The Last [Be] Human collects fourextraordinary poetry books--Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway--byPulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane: The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per million; that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively. The body of work gathered here stands as an extraordinary lyric record of those eighteen calamitous years: a glittering, teeming Anthropocene journal, written from within the New Climatic Regime (as Bruno Latour names the present), rife with hope and raw with loss, lush and sparse, hard to parse and hugely powerful to experience ... Graham's poems are turned to face our planet's deep-time future, and their shadows are cast by the long light of the will-have-been. But they a