Robert Bringhurst trained initially in the sciences at MIT but has made his career in the humanities. He is revered for his translations from Haida and other Native American languages and his studies of cultural history. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada and a former Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Two Canadian universities have awarded him honorary doctorates. He lives on Quadra Island, B.C. Jan Zwicky is a Governor General Award winning poet and a philosopher. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and has taught at a number of North American institutions, including Princeton and the University of Alberta. In the 1980s and '90s, she developed the first courses in environmental philosophy offered in Canadian universities. He lives on Quadra Island, B.C.
Robert Bringhurst trained initially in the sciences at MIT but has made his career in the humanities. He is revered for his translations from Haida and other Native American languages and his studies of cultural history. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada and a former Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Two Canadian universities have awarded him honorary doctorates. He lives on Quadra Island, B.C. Jan Zwicky is a Governor General Award winning poet and a philosopher. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and has taught at a number of North American institutions, including Princeton and the University of Alberta. In the 1980s and '90s, she developed the first courses in environmental philosophy offered in Canadian universities. He lives on Quadra Island, B.C.
Jan Zwicky âs books of poetry include Songs for Relinquishing the Earth , which won the Governor Generalâs Award, Robinsonâs Crossing , which won the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and, most recently Forge , which was short-listed for the Griffin Prize. Her books of philosophy include Wisdom & Metaphor , Lyric Philosophy , and Alkibiadesâ Love (forthcoming 2015).
"Truth-filled meditations about grace in the face of mortality."
@MargaretAtwood
"The project of Learning to Die is simple, but harrowing.
Bringhurst and Zwicky ponder an all-but-unthinkable question: how
should we live in the end times? They don't discount our attempts
to stave off environmental catastrophe. But they believe, on the
evidence, that it's too little too late. And they go on to ask, How
should we face our coming fate? Can we learn, as members of a
species run amok, how to perish with a modicum of responsibility
and grace? These are artist-thinkers of commanding stature, and the
specific answers they give deserve our attention. But what makes
Learning to Die indispensable goes even deeper: the example it sets
of unblinking courage. It opens a space for human beings to reckon
with ultimate things." Dennis Lee, poet and editor
"Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky are two of the wisest and most
learned animals living among us, poet-creatures who regularly
calibrate their awareness by immersing themselves in wild nature
and listening quietly for what it has to teach. As feelingful
animals, they care deeply for other species, and for their fellow
humans as a part ofnot apart fromthe many-voiced earth. In Learning
to Die , they offer a kind of piercing wisdom-literature for our
time, generous insight for an age of ecological calamity. An essay
at the heart of this humble book, entitled 'A Ship from Delos,' has
cut me to the core; I can feel it altering my own way in the
world." David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous and
Becoming Animal
"Guides us towards ways to live and know the situation of climate
change." Annie Proulx, The Guardian
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