Poetry. Women's Studies. Environmental Studies. Winner of the 2016 Washington Prize, this poetry collection retells the story of Moby-Dick, but from the points of view of the women left at home, the whales, the sea itself. Patriarchy is inverted by lyric and astonishing voices that insist we transform from killing to consciousness.

"What if, dear Reader, pursuit's fierce law--to hunt what flees, to kill what is killable, to silence forever what cannot exactly speak for itself--could cast its dark line around itself and halt the maddened chase. What peace would then...