The Middle is beautiful and powerful--Angela Hume's line breaks are beautiful and powerful--her pages are beautiful and powerful--and all that grace animates calm outrage, ghostlier awareness ("private like a thought / for a wrist, of a thigh"), keener sounds ("try looking away try looking away try looking away try looking away try looking away try")--keener ethics, too (first / demarcate // an aesthetics of / / injury")--the body is ghost--polis is eyes but police is eyes too--and polis is police ("state of pacifi / cation state of // damage state of / destroy-all-ex // cess body state of...

Makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume's essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first century ecological poetry and poetics, drawing on the insights of ecocriticism, contemporary philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, black studies, Native studies, critical race theory, and disability studies, among others.