Description: This collection of poems and essays calls for a shift toward a sacred, more poetic narrative to help break the silence of the modern climate crisis.
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Thank you for visiting The Silence of Vanishing Things , a space dedicated to finding a new narrative for this global moment of ecological collapse, one more human and humane. Here you can find sample poems and text excerpts from the book, media interviews and op/eds, and new writings featured in the blog. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your stay.
…tear down the walls, break up the categories, open the channels. Allow poetry to flow into science, science into prayer, prayer into nature, nature into poetry, and around and around let it go. About The Silence of Vanishing Things suggests an over reliance on scientific terminology and concepts is quietly undermining our ability to fully come to grips with the climate and extinction crises. Through three essays and over sixty poems it calls for a simpler, more reverential idiom to help break the silence