Table of Contents

  1. Title page
  2. Copyright page
  3. Editors’ Note
  4. Epigraph
  5. Silenic Landscape
  6. The Human Race
  7. The Embarrassment of Being in the World
  8. From Variations on Adonis
  9. Fresh Kills
  10. to know a thing
  11. From The City Is Lush With / Obstructed Views
  12. The Golden Hour
  13. Successor
  14. Reflections on the Law of Causation
  15. Life After Nature
  16. Chicken Smog
  17. Preview
  18. Signs You Are Standing at the End
  19. it looks like driftwood but, really, it's an apocalypse
  20. After Nature
  21. The Elements
  22. The Larsen C Ice Shelf on Its Last Legs
  23. I Am Chopping Ivory or Bone
  24. an empirical formula of intangibles
  25. From Shale Plays
  26. The Trial
  27. Among Some Anapests at Civic Center
  28. Aubade
  29. 12:41 p.m.
  30. A Dedication
  31. Security Camera Disguised as Birdhouse
  32. Godo
  33. From Mere Life: An Algorithmic Poem with Human Additions
  34. maron
  35. Object Project
  36. Mouthing Green
  37. From Aase's Death
  38. Diary of the Ghost of a Mestiza
  39. The Age of Loneliness
  40. The Rabbits
  41. The Translation
  42. Outside the Seasons
  43. From Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene*
  44. Third Song of the Child Soldiers
  45. Notes on Third World Subtraction
  46. Desertification
  47. Poem with No Water at All
  48. Sand Fire (or The Pool, 2016)
  49. From Some Words from 40-Some Days Before the Eclipse Translating Lorca's Danza de la Muerte by Writing It in Rice Flour Around 40 Wall Street …
  50. The Ghost of Jack London Reports the Post-Apocalypse
  51. Aubade
  52. Dear Future Child
  53. Elegy beginning in the shade of Aunt Mary's mulberry tree
  54. Office of American Innovation
  55. Lovers in a Time of Nuclear Power
  56. An Old Song, a Frog's Song
  57. Contributors

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