Abstract:
This book-length collection of poems focuses on landscape as an illustration of blurred
boundaries between the natural world and the urban, particularly where one impinges on
the other. The poems examine human violence, natural violence, and the places where
those forces intersect. They also examine our relationship to violence and trauma: how do
we explain our roles as the sources or victims of violence? How do we reconcile our
ideologies with what geology, psychology, meteorology, and other sciences tell us about
the ways our world works? Finally, the poems are interested in whether the human world
can be extricated from the “natural”—are there boundaries, in fact, or are these just
another human invention?
