What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium

Nordic Council Literature Prize nominee Kim Simonsen introduces a new poetics to Faroese literature rooted in natural history, philosophy, and the materiality of all things. The rhetorical title of this collection posits the crisis that is underway. Simonsen asks: as a species among species, all composed of the matter of the universe, how has our compulsion to�classify everything hierarchically estranged us from ourselves, each other, and Earth's�ecosystems? Simonsen challenges our anthropocentric pursuit of knowledge, exploring�humankind's relationship with itself as an element of the natural world. What good does it do for�a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium follows the struggles of its�narrator as he reckons with intensifying estrangement from his fellow organisms, gradually�turning to the greater kinship of matter to find continuity, connection, and solace.