Recordings of Dead Languages

What does it mean to lose something? To lose someone? To lose a civilization? Through visceral imagery and powerful narrative, Chad Heltzel's Recordings of Dead Languages captures this essence of disappearing, and each poem in this book is a cabinet of curiosities. But along with small exotic objects, this collection contains whole species, extinct and newly discovered ones alike, photographic and phonographic technologies, everything from a drowned world remembered only in fossils to the d...