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    South × South: Poems from Antarctica
    South × South: Poems from Antarctica
    South × South: Poems from Antarctica
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    South × South: Poems from Antarctica

    By Charles Hood

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    A vivid and insightful look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, South × South celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our planet. Blending travel narrative, historical research, and the surprises of magical realism, Hood presents life in Antarctica and the history of polar aviation as both a miracle of achievement yet also as a way to understand humanity’s longing to be creatures of the heavens as well as the earth. South × South is poetry at its most inventive and surprising, insisting that the world is stranger and more glorious than we ever might have guessed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOhio University Press
    Release dateFeb 5, 2013
    ISBN9780821444559
    South × South: Poems from Antarctica
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    Charles Hood

    Poet and essayist Charles Hood grew up next to the Los Angeles River and has been a factory worker, ski instructor, boat salesman, and birding guide. He stopped counting birds when his list reached 5,000, but he soon replaced it with a mammal list, which now nears 1,000. Wild LA, his book in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was named the best nonfiction book of 2019 by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. Hood currently lives and teaches in the Antelope Valley and is the author of Heyday’s A Californian’s Guide to the Birds among Us and A Californian’s Guide to the Mammals among Us, as well as nine and a half books of poetry.

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