Field Notes on Listening
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2022
- Category
- Canadian, Personal Memoirs, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989496541
- Publish Date
- Jun 2022
- List Price
- $18.00
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Description
At the start of a new Star Wars movie Kit Dobson suddenly realized his daughter had never truly seen the night sky. From then on he began to think seriously about how little we, as humans, interact with the natural world and how that has changed our place within it. Written in elegant sections, Field Notes on Listening starts at Dobson’s kitchen table, a family heirloom, and wends through time and space, looking at his family’s lost farm, the slow violence of climate change and loss of habitat.
About the author
Kit Dobson lives and works in Calgary / Treaty 7 territory in southern Alberta. His previous books include Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada and he is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. He grew up in many places across Canada, but returned again and again to the landscapes of northern Alberta where his family members settled – and that continue to animate his thinking.
Other titles by Kit Dobson
All the Feels / Tous les sens
Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada
Dissonant Methods
Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom
Wisdom in Nonsense
Invaluable Lessons from My Father
Malled
Deciphering Shopping in Canada
Ten Canadian Writers in Context
Producing Canadian Literature
Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace
Transnationalism, Activism, Art
Please, No More Poetry
The Poetry of derek beaulieu
Transnational Canadas
Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization