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4.45 AVERAGE
4.45 AVERAGE
it’s a slim little book but one I’ll be thinking about for a while… lots to ponder about memory and memorial and climate grief
This is a very intuitive collection of essays about memorials, and in particular memorials related to climate change. The book is not for everyone, but it touches on how we embody our understanding of loss.
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I enjoyed this, particularly the questions and prompts each essay invites you to chew on. My only criticism is that it felt very western-centric and secular. I’m not religious at all, but wanted to poke at the idea that repetitive language is lazy or insufficient—what about prayer, song, mantra? I also kept thinking that many cultures have experienced genocide or near extinction. One of them must have words for what Markham is looking for. Why not ask indigenous folks for perspective on this?
A meditation on memorials and relics—how we immortalize tragedy and its victims, and what it means to preserve memory. The book explores these themes thoughtfully but doesn’t dwell too much on climate anxiety or grief itself, which was the main reason I picked it up. Instead, it focuses more on the structures and symbols we create to remember, as well as the emotions tied to loss.
While I appreciated the perspective, I was hoping for a deeper engagement with grief and ecological loss rather than just an examination of remembrance itself
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