Turtles All the Way - Lombard, Rosemary Douglas
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In 2013 a New York Times headline proclaimed that turtles are "Coldblooded, but Surprisingly Smart." These poems cry out the echo of that proclamation, especially for Rosemary Lombard's long-time turtle colleagues at the Chelonian Connection cognition laboratory. In these poems we meet a sea turtle lazing above the anemones; a box turtle entranced by the harvest moon or demonstrating her understandings and skills; a pancake tortoise enraged by poachers and dealers who steal him from his African life on a hill above the savanna; and a tortoise helping with a frog jigsaw puzzle in "Puzzle" (a…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In 2013 a New York Times headline proclaimed that turtles are "Coldblooded, but Surprisingly Smart." These poems cry out the echo of that proclamation, especially for Rosemary Lombard's long-time turtle colleagues at the Chelonian Connection cognition laboratory. In these poems we meet a sea turtle lazing above the anemones; a box turtle entranced by the harvest moon or demonstrating her understandings and skills; a pancake tortoise enraged by poachers and dealers who steal him from his African life on a hill above the savanna; and a tortoise helping with a frog jigsaw puzzle in "Puzzle" (a winner in an environmental-themed gallery exhibit and Oregon Poetry Association contest). Welcome to the world of the shelled!
Autorenporträt
Rosemary Douglas Lombard chose her education at Lewis and Clark College (magna cum laude), where her favorite professor was William Stafford; Indiana University-Bloomington, where she approached the end of a doctoral program in musicology before being distracted by the behavior of turtles; Columbia University, where she spent a summer studying Renaissance music and poetry in an NEH seminar for college teachers; and San Francisco State University, where she turned into an animal behaviorist. She has taught in universities, run a biomedical library, edited scientific manuscripts, served as a naturalist and environmental educator on San Francisco Bay, and more, but mostly she treasures her decades of exploring turtle cognition in her independent laboratory. She presents readings, lectures, and lecture-demonstrations at universities, conferences, museums, libraries, coffee houses, galleries, and elsewhere. She serves her community as co-director of the Conversations with Writers series. She has won awards in poetry and nonfiction and has published literary work in journals and anthologies including Bay Nature, Work Literary Journal, Verseweavers, BluePrintReview, and Blog Carnival>Language>Place. Her creative nonfiction work in progress, a book about her companion/laboratory turtles' empowering quest to learn to communicate with the humans, is called Diode's Experiment: A Box Turtle Investigates the Human World. http://ChelonianConnection.blogspot.com