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Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez was born on February 6, 1980, in Mongmong, Guam, of the indigenous Chamorro people. He moved with his family to California in 1995, and earned a BA in literature and creative writing from the University

Love in a Time of Climate Change

by Craig Santos Perez (b. 1980)

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I don’t love you as if you were rare earth metals,

conflict diamonds, or reserves of crude oil that cause

war. I love you as one loves the most vulnerable

species: urgently, between the habitat and its loss.

I love you as one loves the last seed saved

within a vault, gestating the heritage of our roots,

and thanks to your body, the taste that ripens

from its fruit still lives sweetly on my tongue.

I love you without knowing how or when this world

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Which two poets can be considered to have begun the English tradition of "the poetry of nature," championed by William Wordsworth in the famous "Preface affixed to Lyrical Ballads"?

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