The Dire Elegies

<BODY BGCOLOR="#BBBBBB" TEXT="#080000" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>FootHills Publishing</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills Publishing"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About FootHills Publishing"><U>About FootHills Publishing</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wheeler Hill Readings 2009"><U>Wheeler Hill Readings 2009</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id131.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="New and Announcements"><U>New and Announcements</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id135.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FHP POETS LIST"><U>FHP POETS LIST</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Supporting FHP"><U>Supporting FHP</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Springfed Chapbook Series"><U>Springfed Chapbook Series</U></A>   |   <B>The Dire Elegies</B>   |   <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SWA"><U>SWA</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Submissions Info"><U>Submissions Info</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id134.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SF 59"><U>SF 59</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact FHP"><U>Contact FHP</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Dire Elegies</B></div> <div> <I>59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America</I></div> <div> (Ordering Information Below)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="37129000.jpg" border=0 width="553" height="512" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Illustartion by <B>David M. Carroll</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>20 percent of proceeds from sales will go to the</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>NRDC's BioGems campaign (</B><A HREF="http://www.savebiogems.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.savebiogems.org/"><U><B><U>http://www.savebiogems.org/</U></B></U></A><B>).</B></div> <bR> <div> HARVARD BIOLOGIST E.O. WILSON, GLOBAL WARMING GURU BILL McKIBBEN AND 59 POETS - CREATE THE FORMULA FOR “…A MUST-READ FOR OUR TIMES”</div> <bR> <div> <B>Karla Linn Merrifield, </B>chief editor<B>,</B> and co-editor <B>Roger M. Weir</B> have assembled a first anthology of its type in the world to inspire readers to take action on behalf of the continent's endangered plants and animals.  </div> <bR> <div> "Poets here have left their ivory towers to encourage their neighbors to walk in the woods, observe the world, learn - and act,” said Merrifield, who teaches writing in the New York state university system. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Dr. Edward O. Wilson</B>, world-renowned Harvard entomologist and two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning author, points out in the epigraph to this unique collection of poetry, “…the better an ecosystem is known, the less likely it will be destroyed.”  </div> <bR> <div> This is the premise of “THE DIRE ELEGIES: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America” and why author <B>Bill McKibben</B> (“The End of Nature,” “Enough,” and “Wandering Home”) says in the book's foreword, “These magnificent poems work as a chant to summon more” of the love to save the endangered from extinction.  It's also why writer <B>Susan Cerulean</B> (“Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-tailed Kites”<I>)</I> has called the book an “important manifesto: a must-read for our times.”  </div> <bR> <div>     </div> <div>  Included in the anthology are noted poets<B> William Heyen, Maxine Kumin, W. S. Merwin, Enid Shomer, James E. Smelcer, Gary Snyder, Brian Swann </B>and<B> </B><B>Lewis Turco </B>among others.  The 59 poets are from all across the U.S. and Canada.  </div> <bR> <div> The book's cover illustration depicting painted turtles in hibernation was donated by New Hampshire artist and naturalist <B>David M. Carroll</B>, recipient of The Burroughs Award for his <I>Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetland's Year</I>. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Science Meets Poetry</B></div> <bR> <div>      A helpful feature of the anthology is the species notes that accompany the poems each time a new species is introduced.  </div> <bR> <div> For example, when readers encounter Minnesota poet Shirley S. Stevens's poem “On Spotting a Pygmy Owl,” they also learn:  “<I>The endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, </I>Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum<I>, of the U.S. Southwest and Mexico, numbered only 12 birds when it was listed in the U.S. in 1997.  A USF&WS recovery team began its work to rescue the species in 1998, but its fate remains precarious.”</I><I>   </I></div> <bR> <div>      “This anthology is a major advance along a most important frontier: forging compassion for endangered species, and using our human self-awareness to reflect on whether we really wish to travel the road we're on.,” said <B>Carl Safina</B>, author of <I>Song for the Blue Ocean</I> and <I>Voyage of the Turtle</I>, and founder and president of the Blue Ocean Institute.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Contents</B></I></div> <div> <I>Foreword:  Regarding the Frog and Our Real Selves</I>, Bill McKibben</div> <div> <I>Preface:  A Righteous Case for the 1,277</I>, Karla Linn Merrifield, Roger M. Weir</div> <div> <I>Epigraph</I>, E. O. Wilson</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>In the Beginning</B></I></div> <div> Roll Call, North American, Chris Norment</div> <div> A Bestiary of Continuous Extinctions, Steven Huff</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I.</B></I></div> <div> <I>Grizzly,</I> Michele F. Cooper</div> <div> <I>You Are in Bear Country</I>, Maxine Kumin</div> <div> <I>In Concert</I>, Jen Eddy</div> <div> <I>Loss</I>, Dennis Fritzinger</div> <div> <I>Killed by the Bear</I>, John Hutchinson </div> <div> <I>Treat Each Bear</I>, Gary Lawless</div> <div> <I>The Hunter</I>, John E. Smelcer</div> <div> <I>Night Cat</I>, Bruce Sweet</div> <div> <I>Piute Creek</I>, Gary Snyder</div> <div> <I>Water Flowing Over Rocks</I>, Erica Caldwell</div> <div> <I>Stalking the Florida Panther</I>, Enid Shomer</div> <div> <I>Wolf-God</I>, James A. Parsley</div> <div> <I>On Feet of Clouds/</I>Yanlaey Kae, John E. Smelcer</div> <div> <I>Dominance</I>, Susan Edwards Richmond</div> <div> <I>Boy & Zoo</I>, Jon Palzer</div> <div> <I>Out of Balance</I>, John E. Smelcer</div> <div> <I>Call of the Wild</I>, John E. Smelcer</div> <div> <I>Tatanka</I>, Linda Opyr</div> <div> <I>American Pome</I>, Chris Green</div> <div> <I>Visions of a Fading Empire</I>, Casey Carroll</div> <div> <I>A Fox</I>, Chris Green</div> <div> <I>Black- Footed Ferret</I>, Dennis Fritzinger</div> <div> <I>Adopt-a-Prairie Chicken</I>, Erica Caldwell</div> <div> <I>Clem's Peaches</I>, Jessica Langen-Peck</div> <div> <I>Grass River Blues</I>, Jay Franzel</div> <div> <I>Two Salamanders</I>, Kathleen Van Schaick</div> <div> <I>At the Top of the Food Chain</I>, Mary Laufer</div> <div> <I>In the Eyes of a Toad</I>, Marian Lovene Griffey</div> <div> <I>Charting the Embryo</I>, Katherine L. Gordon</div> <div> <I>The Dilemma</I>, David Dodd</div> <div> <I>No Shrouds</I>, Donna Marbach</div> <div> <I>In Search of the Madla's Cave Webweaver</I>, Patricia Roth Schwartz</div> <div> <I>Orion Espies a Tree's Demise</I>, Karla Linn Merrifield</div> <div> <I>Hart's-Tongue Fern</I>, Gerald Schwartz</div> <div> <I>Lichen, Rock Gnome</I>, Wanda Schubmehl</div> <div> <I>Advice from Ancestors</I>, Beau Cutts</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>II.</B></I></div> <div> <I>The Last Valley</I>, Katherine L. Gordon</div> <div> <I>Whale Ivory</I>, Eileen Malone</div> <div> <I>Last Whale</I>, Gary Lawless</div> <div> <I>Leviathan</I>, Lewis Turco</div> <div> <I>Harpoon</I>, William Heyen</div> <div> <I>Ascension</I>, Margo Stever</div> <div> <I>For a Coming Extinction</I>, W. S. Merwin</div> <div> <I>The Whale's Tale</I>, Joe St. Martin</div> <div> <I>The Manatee</I>, Campbell McGrath</div> <div> <I>Chancing Upon the Manatees</I>, Elise Paschen</div> <div> Sirenia Mermaidus, Patricia Ellyn Powell</div> <div> <I>Grace Despite</I>, Alisa Gordaneer</div> <div> <I>Our Delightful Weasel in the Sea</I>, Michele Bar-David</div> <div> <I>Turtle Moon</I>, Brian Swann</div> <div> <I>I walk the darkening beach</I>, Wilda Morris</div> <div> <I>So Excellent a Fishe…</I>, Dennis Fritzinger</div> <div> <I>Chinook.  Sockeye.  On special this week only</I>, Alisa Gordaneer</div> <div> <I>Shortnose</I>, Anne W. Hammond</div> <div> <I>Alewives</I>, Marianna Tupper</div> <div> <I>Of High Sierra Rivulets and </I>Not<I> Burning Books</I>, Ann Beman </div> <div> <I>Isolation</I>, Jason A. Seivers</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>III.</B></I></div> <div> <I>For a northern flying squirrel seen on Nov. 23, 1982</I>, Elizabeth Lawson</div> <div> <I>Saturday, Tucker's Cave</I>, Alisa Gordaneer</div> <div> <I>Bats Deserve Better</I>, Kathleen March </div> <div> <I>For Life</I>, Lynn Pattison</div> <div> <I>Scavengers</I>, Catie Jarvis</div> <div> <I>Condor</I>, Susan Edwards Richmond</div> <div> <I>Craning</I>, Richard Downing</div> <div> <I>Cranes to Come</I>, Marilyn Peretti</div> <div> <I>On Spotting a Pygmy Owl</I>, Shirley S. Stevens</div> <div> <I>The Long View</I>, Todd Davis</div> <div> <I>Piping Plover</I>, Shirley S. Stevens</div> <div> <I>Obsolete</I>, Todd Davis</div> <div> <I>The Day There Were No Birds</I>, Constance Vogel</div> <div> <I>Faded Blue</I>, Lisa Scott Hilton</div> <div> <I>Lament for the Karner Blue Butterfly</I>, Donna Marbach</div> <div> <I>Starvation</I>, Jason A. Seivers</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>About the Editors</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     Karla Linn Merrifield</B> holds a Master's of Arts in Creative Writing from SUNY College at Brockport, (Brockport, NY).  She has had poetry published in national publications such as <I>CALYX;</I> <I>The Kerf;</I> <I>Redactions</I>, <I>Texas Poetry Journal</I>; <I>Blueline:  A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks; Earth's Daughters; Negative</I> <I>Capability; Paper Street;</I> as well as in many anthologies, including<I> Doorways: Families, Friends and Survivors of September 11th Reflect on Living with Loss </I>(Sept. 2004) and <I>Beyond Katrina</I> (Nov. 2005)<I>.</I> In fall 2004, FootHills Publishing published <I>Midst</I>, a collection of her nature poems.  She teaches writing at SUNY Brockport each fall and travels widely in North America the remaining months of the year.</div> <div>  </div> <div>   Merrifield's husband, <B>Roger M. Weir</B>, who holds a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Rochester, is a wordsmith of long practice and pleasure.   For 32 years he was on the professional staff at SUNY College at Brockport, serving as Division of Student Affairs' publications editor.  As someone who openly confesses that his love for poetry "ended with Yeats," he brought a unique editorial perspective to the creation of this anthology.   (He makes an exception for his wife's work.)</div> <bR> <div> ISBN:  0-941053-93-8</div> <div> <I>The Dire Elegies</I></div> <div> is a 120 page hand-sewn book with spine - $19.95</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE </div> <bR> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="The Dire Elegies"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-05"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="19.95"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> Contributors Order On-Line here:</div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="The Dire Elegies"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-05"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="$9.98"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> To order through mail send total price plus $1.75 Shipping and Handling ($2.25 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) </div> <div> for each address sent to.  (NYS Residents please add $1.60 Sales Tax per book)</div> <bR> <div> Send orders to:                      </div> <bR> <div> FootHills Publishing</div> <div> PO Box 68</div> <div> Kanona, NY 14856</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>