This book presents a genealogy of postwar American poetry that considers new dimensions of ecological crisis in the era now termed the Great Acceleration.
Margaret Ronda is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Her collection of poetry, Personification, was the winner of the 2009 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize.
"[T]he source of this book's real value [is] a reinvention of the radical register of thought and action for our historical present - because nothing less will be sufficient if we are to survive the storms to come."
