Extinction Song

A collection that combines fixed poetic forms with long-form meditative lyrics to explore questions of agency in the Anthropocene.

Extinction Song begins with a tender depiction of early parenthood, as the speaker cradles his newborn son while imagining a dystopian climate future. The poems open into a broader consideration of overlapping and interrelated systems, from the confines of received knowledge to the closed circuit of ideology to the circularity of pollutive environmental cycles. ...