Poetry. From the author's note: "This work began when I was asked to write an essay on beauty. I felt I had nothing to say about beauty so I decided on something procedural: I would go to 'beautiful' places with audio recording equipment, transcribe the excursions, and see what emerged. After my first outings, it became clear that on these trips a great deal of time was spent consulting maps and otherwise orienting oneself—and the language of that was not only interesting but often funny. It had that quality of Perec's work that I love, his capacity for capturing those things that are so obvious and ubiquitous that we don't notice them. I thought surely this language must be happening all the time. So I decided to keep doing it until I had 99 pages. Thanks to my fellow travelers: Steve Zultanski, Matvei Yankelevich, Phyllis van Slyck, Joanna Scutts, Laura Tanenbaum, Morgan Puett, Karen Miller, Sadie Levy, Gita Levy, Robert Fitterman, Tony Hightower, David Girves, Eileen Gallagher, Edward Gallagher, Gracie Cox, Ron Alexander, Pam Alexander, Chris Alexander."

We Are Here

Literature & Fiction

Gallagher, Kristen

Poetry

Truck Books

<p>Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Environmental Studies. While following in the footsteps of Zora Neale Hurston, Kristen Gallagher finds H.P. Lovecraft alive and well in Florida. Written as a series of first-hand accounts from the gooey, disorienting, mutant front lines of climate change, 85% TRUE/MINOR ECOLOGIES explores the eco-horror of everyday-life. In this book, we find a Florida filled with islands of cannibal snakes; starfish devouring their own flesh; poisonous frogs that may or may not have been weaponized by the government; and New Age cultists diving for Ponce de Leon's lost relics. Ranging freely across poetry, fiction, and anthropology, Gallagher constructs a new nature writing in which partial untruth becomes an essential way of expressing the full horror of the slow-death of our world.</p>

85% true/minor ecologies

Skeleton Man

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We Are Here

85% true/minor ecologies