Blue thinks itself within me

Kim Trainor has won the Gustafson Prize, The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize, and The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Poetry Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry in English, Global Poetry Anthology, and Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees. She lives in Vancouver.

Preface Chapter 1. The Dark Mountain Fire Season The dark depression Kiaw, kiaw, kiaw Toward the dark sweet Chapter 2. Aperture Openings Aperture Oldgrowth specklebelly lichen Roadside, Ada'itsx / Fairy Creek Cobalt / Supply chains Radical attunement and the lyric poem Chapter 3. Co-making Nestwork Snail shell What is it like to be a tree? Poem as made (of) thing(s) Chapbook Fascicules Making Introductions for co-making this world Chapter 4. Vigilance Ground of our being in the world Grandmother Tree, Grandfather Tree Tsawalk La vide / emptying Chapter 5. Poems like Miebach sculptures The Burden of Every Drop Fieldnotes Poems like Miebach sculptures What will I carry in my backpack? Sympoiesis (making-with) Oldgrowth specklebelly lichen-Lichenous forms Chapter 6. Piiiiittuuu | Song kin Umwelt Songs of the humpback whale Biosonification Acousteme What do they call themselves? Eye yields at a distance, sound gathers within What we do not perceive, we do not know Qualia Chapter 7. Blue thinks itself within me Inchworm Ecart | Mind the gap Descartes | Ghost in the machine Kant | Das Ding an Sich (The Thing in Itself) Heidegger | Das Ding an Sich (The Thing in Itself) Merleau-Ponty | Le chiasme, la chair (Chiasm, flesh) Levinas | Alterity of sound OOO | Mutual darkness Ortega y Gasset | La celula bella (The beautiful cell) Panpsychism | Rainforest teaming with consciousness Postscript: Some notes on an oldgrowth specklebelly lichen poem Acknowledgements Bibliography

"Blue thinks itself within me mesmerized me. This isn't only a book of experimental poetics, it is an urgent call for ethical witnessing." -- Orchid Tierney, author of looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading "Powerfully delicate and precise. Kim Trainor excavates personal and political history and takes an approach to narrative that crafts research as poetry. I couldn't put it down." -- Renee Sarojini Saklikar, author of children of air india