{"product_id":"wrecks-9781955992633","title":"Wrecks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWrecks\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poems inspired by the great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the mid-1800s. The last two known members of the species were killed on Eldey Island, Iceland, in 1844. The auk was repeatedly described by those who killed the bird as making human-like gestures and sounds, including sighs. \u003ci\u003eWrecks\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how the human-nonhuman binary and the dehumanization it enables makes space for violence--against animals and the environment, but also against other humans. It explores the colonial systems that drive extinction, and the hierarchical structure by which hegemonic powers decide what is--and what is not--human. It engages the author's experience of dehumanization as an atheist growing up in the conservative South; it also interrogates her complicity in systems of structural racism, and her inheritance as the descendant of colonizers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Noemi Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955992633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs","brand":"Erin L. McCoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51581008380085,"sku":"9781955992633","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ec26609b-58f1-46cb-975c-dbf8bb56492e.jpg?v=1755619154","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wrecks-9781955992633","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}