<DIV>"How do you respond when the familiar, benevolent, and predictable world you count on becomes strange, hostile, and chaotic? First, you must face it. Next, bear witness. Steven Holmes has gathered compelling testimonies about the ways our earthly home is changing in the short space of our own lifetimes. They beg us to pay attention and act. We are wise to heed these passionate voices.”<br>?<B>Chip Ward</B>, author of <I>Hope's Horizon: Three Visions For Healing The American Land</I><BR><BR>?These earnest and heartfelt poems, essays, and imaginings change our discourse from data to personal testimony, channeling ?care and concern.’ Maybe, just maybe, these authors who call us to ?unheroic’ action ?on life’s behalf’ will steer us away from tragedy and chaos. ?Emerging from denial is like moving from blindness to light.’ As the refrain from one writer puts it, ?Good Lord! Good luck!’”<br>?<B>Stephen Trimble</B>, author of <I>Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America</I><BR><BR>"<I>Facing the Change</I> shares the stories of some of the many people in the US and the world who are already witnessing climate change here and now. They are giving us early warning signs; it's up to all of us to act now."<BR>?<B>Mae Boeve</B>, executive director of 350.org<BR><BR>"<I>Facing the Change</I> registers the impact of climate destabilization, not only on the sky above us and the earth beneath our feet, but also within our hearts. The voices in this eloquent and original book convey the dread and grief, the anger, but also the experiences of love and community that are intensified by the defining ecological challenge of our time."<BR>?<B>John Elder</B>, author of <I>Reading the Mountains of Home</I>, editor of <I>The Norton Book of Nature</I><BR><BR>?These eloquent stories, essays, and poems by scores of 'emotional and cultural first responders' to the effects of climate change are sure to deliver a powerful wake-up call to anyone who has supposed that nothing an individual person can say or do will affect this impending disaster.”<BR>?<B>Lawrence Buell</B>, author of <I>The Environmental Imagination</I><BR><BR>"How could anyone describe a 'personal encounter with global warming'? The very idea of encapsulating the vastness of climate within the intimacy of story seems paradoxical. But we are realizing these days that what we need, as we seek to mobilize public attention, reform petroleum-based lifestyles, and exert pressure on policymakers in pursuit of '350 ppm' (or less), is not more information about the science of global climate change, but more apprehension of the meaning, the emotional salience, of this environmental phenomenon. In a sense, we need to invent a new language to help us visualize the data, to make it real. Steven Pavlos Holmes and the contributors to <I>Facing the Change</I> have begun to reveal the experiential heart of a planetary process. This is a truly important project."<BR>?<B>Scott Slovic</B>,editor of <I>ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment</I><BR><BR>Filled not with bare facts and dire warnings but with evocative, accessible stories, essays, and poetry, <I>Facing the Change</I> shows how global warming is affecting the everyday lives of people today. A wide range of writers and poets from across the United States?and Malaysia?brings courage, honesty, and insight to one of the major issues of our lives.<BR><BR><B>Steven Pavlos Holmes, PhD</B>, is an independent scholar, editor, and educator in the environmental humanities, with a special interest in people's personal experiences of the natural world. His first book, <I>The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography</I>, won the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars. He currently lives, gardens, and watches birds in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.<BR></DIV>