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most courageous
His photographs have been collected and exhibited by the Whitney Museum of American Art
Chris Yamamoto
host and founder of The On Being Project
Wrecks Book cover type:Paperback most courageousWrecks is a collection of poems inspired by the great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the mid 1800s. The last two known members of the species were killed on Eldey Island, Iceland, in 1844. The auk was repeatedly described by those who killed the bird as making human like gestures and sounds, including sighs. Wrecks investigates how the human nonhuman binary and the dehumanization it enables makes space for violenceagainst animals