Pittsburgh Launch! Christopher Kondrich "Tread Upon" with Diana Khoi Nguyen
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RSVP to attend In-store! Register for Livestream! We are grateful to host Christopher Kondrich in celebration of his third book of poetry, Tread Upon! Imaginative, visionary, and intensely lyric, Tread Upon challenges our anthropocentric culture and questions notions of individual responsibility amid corporate misinformation. Christopher will be joined in conversation by local poet, multimedia artist, and educator, Diana Khoi Nguyen. Tread Upon —by turns tender and furious, and wholly original—attempts to depict the various scales upon which climate change unfolds around us. Bold, incisive, and wholly original, Christopher Kondrich's Tread Upon explores the social, political, religious, and economic drivers behind the chronic devaluation of the living world. In this book-length sequence, in which each section unravels a word or phrase of the prefatory poem, Tread Upon sprawls from suburbia to the Southern Ocean, from the Cape Fear River to the phones in our hands. Kondrich juxtaposes the intimate with the epic, integrating climate research and reporting to dismantle narratives of anthropocentrism and our individual responsibility amid corporate misinformation. What is the price of our (in)actions and who must pay the cost? In this world where “even one blade is a place," the sequence reveals that the violence done to the living world is violence done to ourselves. DIANA KHOI NGUYEN is the author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner
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- Christopher KondrichAuthor
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- Tread UponChristopher Kondrich
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