Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter si
2. Contents vii
3. INTRODUCTION The Practice of Sustaining Attention to Climate Change 1
4. Part I SCOPE
5. Chapter one WHAT IS DENIAL? Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Teju Cole’s Open City, and Sally Wen Mao’s “Occidentalism” 19
6. Chapter two WHY REVIVE THE LYRIC? Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Craig Santos Perez’s “Love in a Time of Climate Change” 38
7. Chapter three WHY STAY WITH BAD FEELINGS? Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Tommy Pico’s IRL 65
8. Chapter four HOW SHOULD I LIVE? Inattention and Everyday-Life Projects 80
9. Part II BREATH
10. Chapter five WHAT’S WRONG WITH NARRATIVE? The Promises and Disappointments of Climate Fiction 101
11. Chapter six WHERE ARE WE NOW? Scalar Variance, Persistence, Swing, and David Bowie 121
12. Part III URGENCY
13. Chapter seven THE SCALE OF THE EVERYDAY, PART 1 The Keeling Curve, Frank O’Hara, and Bernadette Mayer 141
14. Chapter eight THE SCALE OF THE EVERYDAY, PART 2 Ada Limón, Tommy Pico, and Solmaz Sharif 159
15. Chapter nine THE GLOBAL NOVEL IMAGINES THE AFTERLIFE George Saunders, J. M. Coetzee, and Han Kang 180
16. CONCLUSION The Foreign Present— Who Are We to Each Other? 201
17. Acknowledgments 213
18. Notes 217
19. Bibliography 233
20. Index 243