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5.0
How can such a heartbreaking outcome carry such beautiful language? The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is a collection of poems about a dystopian future where humans continue their existence on Earth. While commercial space travel may not be in our near future, this chilling foreboding is all too real a consideration, especially with environmental disasters more frequently occurring in different places in the world.
Rogers urges us not to take our world for granted. She does this in how she writes such beauty of simple things, such as water, air, and sound, all of which would be experienced much differently on Mars. Her language, again, is so beautiful and haunting: "now you must know what it means to lose your lakes and oceans." Of all the things we could lose, she warns against the loss of our humanity. We and the earth are inextricably intertwined: if we neglect the Earth, we neglect ourselves.
This is a beautiful book, begging its readers to see the flaws in our existing systems and how it'll continually harm the environment. This book shook me to my core. With this book, Rogers displayed such a talent for making the reader yearn for something that is not (yet) gone. I will not forget the weight of heartbreak I felt. If we are to save the Earth, our beloved home, we need to take action now; and, Rogers masterfully emphasizes this urgency with such precise, acute emotion.
Rogers urges us not to take our world for granted. She does this in how she writes such beauty of simple things, such as water, air, and sound, all of which would be experienced much differently on Mars. Her language, again, is so beautiful and haunting: "now you must know what it means to lose your lakes and oceans." Of all the things we could lose, she warns against the loss of our humanity. We and the earth are inextricably intertwined: if we neglect the Earth, we neglect ourselves.
This is a beautiful book, begging its readers to see the flaws in our existing systems and how it'll continually harm the environment. This book shook me to my core. With this book, Rogers displayed such a talent for making the reader yearn for something that is not (yet) gone. I will not forget the weight of heartbreak I felt. If we are to save the Earth, our beloved home, we need to take action now; and, Rogers masterfully emphasizes this urgency with such precise, acute emotion.
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