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Staying With the Troubled
The albatross just can’t catch a break. It’s 12ft wingspan and dedication to nesting take make it an easy target for all sorts of woe. From plucking feathers from living birds for fashion, fishing bycatch, death by consumption of plastics, and now invasive mice eating their elbows of their wings when they nest. (Kolbert) Amy Propen questions human agency, “How might we learn to get on together in the worlds we share with vulnerable, disregarded bodies, when we ourselves struggle to recognize the gravity of events unfolding before us, or to conceptualize our interconnectedness with those worlds? Or how we might learn to become with?” (75) Propen