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Making a Life at the End of the World

Lisa Wells

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Black Inc
20 July 2021

Memoirs; Society & Social Sciences; Society & culture: general

Discover trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radical new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth.

Like many of us, award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by news of apocalyptic-scale climate change and a coming sixth extinction. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes. But what can be done? Wells embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking answers in dedicated communities - outcasts and visionaries - on the margins of society.

Wells meets Finisia Medrano, a misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists to rewild the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practising 'watershed discipleship' in New Mexico, and another group in Philadelphia turning tools of violence into tools of farming - guns into ploughshares. She watches the world's greatest tracker teach how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in new ways that acknowledge the fires will come again.

Blending reportage, memoir, history and philosophy, Wells opens up seemingly intractable questions about the damage we have done and how we might reckon with our inheritance. Believers demands transformation- if the Earth is our home, if our home is being destroyed - how then shall we live?

By: Lisa Wells
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 464g
ISBN: 9781760643133
ISBN 10: 1760643130
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 20 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa Wells is a poet and writer of nonfiction from Portland, Oregon. Her debut collection of poetry, The Fix, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays have been widely published, including in The New York Times and Harper's Magazine. She lives in Seattle and is an editor for The Volta and Letter Machine Editions.

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Believers

Making a Life at the End of the World

Lisa Wells

$36.99

Paperback

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