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Birthday Party as a Climate Story
- Craig Santos Perez recounts his daughter’s first birthday party during the hottest April in history while her fever spikes.
- He juxtaposes that intimate family scene with global climate events to make the personal feel planetary.
Love Reframes Environmental Ethics
- The poem uses the parent’s love to refract the whole world: his daughter is the world and the world is his daughter.
- This lens asks readers to care for the planet with the same urgency we care for a child.
Pivot From Child Care To Planet Care
- The poem pivots from a child’s medical crisis to treating the earth as if it were fighting infection from rising temperatures.
- That pivot connects private care and public responsibility, exposing denial and the need for action.