Earth: Cool and Dirty

Earth-cool, and Dirty is a portrayal of our existence in the Anthropocene. A meditation on the ways human life and the natural world grow into one another and yet still remain estranged, “the rock in my hand, /retrieved from my garden, / is as foreign to me as my own skull.” The poet dissects family life, mortality, writes love letters to other poets, and describes how fairy-tale heroes navigate middle age.