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Noir offers “a view of life under a man-made ego-system,” The Sea of
Wonders, in which poet Nicelle Davis queries the implications of preserving
(penguin) lives when the world that would support them is becoming unlivable
and our relationship to them increasingly mediated (“So many images of
nature, we struggle ever to make it outside”). Wry, yearning, exasperated,
this play-in-verse with bold paintings by artist Cheryl Gross and dramatic
monologues of individual Emperor, Gentoo, and other penguins dares us to
look penguins (and, by extension, the world) in the eye and ‘fess up to the
mess we’ve made. Sharp, eviscerating wit will keep you rubbernecking the
spectacle Davis walks us through.
— Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Toward Antarctica and Cascadia Field Guide:
Art, Ecology, Poetry.
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