Everything Is Never Enough

Loydell, Rupert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2730-8489 (2024) Everything Is Never Enough. In: Traces: Sand and Snow in Symbiosis. Middle Creek Publishing, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. ISBN 9781957483177 (In Press)

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Abstract / Summary

A book of ekphrastic poems catalyzed by images of animal tracks in the sand of Africa's Saharadesert and the snow of Wyoming's Snowy Mountains. The images were takenby a pair of biologists — an American (Jeffrey A. Lockwood) and aMauritanian (Mohamed Abdellahi Ould Babah EBBE) — who have beenscientific colleagues and good friends for 24 years. The tracksrepresent a wide range of creatures native to our respective homelands(~20 from each place).

The writers were assigned images that either matched their environment(i.e., sand tracks to Mauritanian poets and snow tracks to US/UK poets)or contrasted with their conditions (i.e., sand tracks to US/UK poetsand snow tracks to Mauritanian poets). And in a few cases, the same sandor snow image was provided to poets from both places.

The goal of this venture is to create aesthetic bridges between distantlands to evoke a sense of common ground in terms of ecology and culture.The organizers/editors of the project have found over many years thatwhat they have in common — despite their very different homelands,faiths (Sufi Moslem and Unitarian Universalist), languages (Arabic,French and English), foods (camel's milk cheese and cheddar cheese), andarts (nifara and saxophone) — is far greater and deeper than whatdivides them. And the world is in desperate need of both celebratingcultural differences and embracing our shared humanity

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	9781957483177
Subjects:	History, Geography & Environment Creative Art & Design > Photography Natural Sciences Communication > Creative Writing Communication > Journalism
Courses by Department:	The School of Communication
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Rupert Loydell
Date Deposited:	19 Feb 2024 14:32
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 15:05
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5388

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