Self-Portrait with Cephalopod 9781571315175 - Free Tracked Delivery

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A 2022 Washington State Book Award finalist\nEnvironmental collapse. The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works in a timber mill. The celebrities in our feeds, the stories we tell ourselves. Loss, never-ending loss. Self-Portrait with Cephalopod\u2014selected by francine j. harris as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize\u2014is an account of being a girl, and then a woman, in the world; of being a living creature on a doomed planet; of being someone who aspires to do better but is torn between attention and distraction.\nHere, Kathryn Smith offers observations and anxieties, prophecies and prayers, darkness and light\u2014but never false hope. Instead, she incises our vanities and our hypocrisies, \u201Cthe bloody hand holding back / the skin,\u201D revealing \u201Cthe world\u2019s inner workings, /\n\nSelf-Portrait with Cephalopod\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery with Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlea;