A Blueprint For Survival

By: Kim Trainor

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Paperback | 30 April 2024

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A Blueprint for Survival begins in wildfire season, charting a long-distance relationship against the increasing urgency of climate change in the boreal, then shifts to a long sequence, "Seeds," which thinks about forms of resistance, survival, and emergence in the context of the sixth mass extinction. Each seed functions as blueprint, whether simple human-made tool or complex organism driven by its DNA to adapt to and respond to our current existential threat, each showing a different way of being in the world: lentil, snowdrop, chinook salmon, codex, tardigrade, honeybee, "the beautiful cell."

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[The poems] lure you in with their lush journeys through natural landscapes, with love of the earth, climate despair, and sexual desire all converging on the page in beautiful prose poems.

--Wanda Praamsma, Toronto Star

Highly ambitious and heartfelt ... the scale of this volume is incredible. I don't know how to begin.

--rob mclennan

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