Anthropocene Blues by Anne Waldman

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend February 2, 2017   Anthropocene Blues   Anne Waldman

sound de-territorializes weather and my love clings to you sings to you in the "new weathers" within a tragedy of the Anthropocene   nothing not held hostage by the hand of Man   can we resist? will we fail? to save our world?   we dream replicas of ourselves fragile, broken robotic thought-bubbles   inside the shadow a looming possibility this new year to wake up   could it be?   an anthropoid scared from the forest slow in development now infantilized much like us   stressed yet perhaps ready to resist this scenario?   the forest made the monkey & the cave & steppe: the human and now what makes us suppler more human?   climate grief? a fierce tenderness toward the destruction of our world?   questions or actions?   [my love for you sings for you, world I've got those Anthropocene…. Anthropocene…. blues…..]            Copyright © 2017 Anne Waldman. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "'Anthropocene Blues' is written in response to the increased evidence of human interference in planetary balance and ecological well-being. And it is also written with alarm at the continuing prevalence of climate change ignorance and the thrust of recent political events. The poem is written for the new year. The writing is on the wall." —Anne Waldman   Anne Waldman is the author of Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born (Coffee House Press, 2016). She is the artistic director of the Summer Writing Program of Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, an MFA program she cofounded with poet Allen Ginsberg. She resides in New York City and Boulder, Colorado.   Photo credit: Kai Silbey Poetry by Waldman   Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born (Coffee House Press, 2016) "A Certain Slant of Sunlight" by Ted Berrigan "The Blue Stairs" by Barbara Guest "Individual Time" by Alice Notley Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. If you enjoy Poem-a-Day, please consider making a donation to help make it possible. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038