Overview

What do we lose when ecosystems are degraded through human use and misuse? How do we process the damage, both environmentally and culturally? How should we feel about individuals who participated in extinction events but did not know that they were extinction events? How should we feel about the ways that we may be equally culpable? In her stunning study of the American wilderness and the emotional aspects of extinction, Hannah Rodabaugh crafts a moving elegy to what we've lost, and where we go from here.

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""Hannah Rodabaugh is viscerally aware of the nearness of absolute earthly extinction. If what she writes in Lost Cathedral is a requiem, it is also that oldest of songs, about a love that will somehow never end."" -Robert Wrigley, Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award ""Rodabaugh's sharp observation, wisdom, and curiosity, hold hope and beauty as an act of resistance. Here, we remember that poetry, too, is an act of resistance."" -Rebecca Evans, author of Safe Handling ""In these rich, verdant, blisteringly clear-eyed poems, Hannah Rodabaugh bears witness to what we've lost. "" -Catherine Wagner, author of Nervous Device ""Equal parts ecopoetics and elegy, as these deeply-researched poems reanimate the creatures eradicated by our long history of dominance over the natural world."" -Emily Pittinos, author of The Last Unkillable Thing ""Working against 'embellishment, ' Lost Cathedral proposes a meticulous, entangled poetics of extinction and complicity, grounded in questions of home."" -Bhanu Kapil ""Come gently tend the trail of this searching, powerful book."" -Catherine Broadwall, author of Fulgurite ""This carefully crafted collection, rendered with beautiful language, reminds us of what we stand to lose when we stop listening."" -CMarie Fuhrman, author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return

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Hannah Rodabaugh is the author of four chapbooks of poetry, including We Don't Bury Our Dead When Our Dead Are Animals. She is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and has twice been an Artist-in-Residence for the National Park Service.

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