Cartographies of Scale (and Wing)

Anca Vlasopolos magnificent collection of poetry is a meditation on map-making and on migration which pays homage to two scientists Gerardus Mercator and Nathaniel Bowditch whose work was enormously useful but unwittingly helped lead to conquest decimation and in some cases extinction of native habitats peoples and non-human life. These poems celebrate life that often passes unnoticed (intertidal creatures migrating and common birds amphibians reptiles non-charismatic mammals and disregarded humans) advocate for its worth habitats and right to existence.