Dissonance by Kristin Dykstra - 9780226840314

DissonanceAuthor(s): Kristin Dykstra\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226840314, 978-0226840314\nSynopsis\nA collection of poems and photographs that take the foothills of Vermonts Green Mountains as a microcosm for considering climate change, borders, and community life.\n In Dissonance, translator Kristin Dykstras first book of original poetry, the author leads us to inner worlds shaped partly by the New England countryside, tracking shifts in the regions nature, infrastructure, and people, while sharing observations on borders and climate catastrophe that reverberate globally. Dykstra condenses signs of urban expansion, economic division, and battles over democracy into an innovative meditation. With a dynamic approach to form, musicality, and scope, Dissonance explores ways of experiencing regional landscapes and imagined communities in the twenty-first century.\n Through her extended.