Review of Goodbye, ice: Arctic poems, by Lawrence Millman (2020). Albuquerque, NM, USA: Coyote Arts. 83 pp. ISBN paper: 978-1-58775-031-1; e-book: 978-1-58775-032-8

[摘要] Lawrence Millman, a mycologist, traveller and writer, describes his poetry collection Goodbye, ice as “a poetical account of [his] wanderings” (p. xi) over a period of 40 years. Beginning in Narsaq, West Greenland, the poems circle the Arctic world: Jan Mayen, Wrangel Island, Yukon, Nunavut. Such place names often serve instead of titles, and in sequence, the poems unify the territory across the spaces between pages. The poems themselves are verbal snapshots of things noticed or overheard on Millman’s travels, and present with humour and an engaging directness the lived experience of a vital Arctic world, which is threatened by global industrialization and accelerating climate change.

[学科分类] 建筑学