A searing, urgent collection of poems that brings the lyric and documentary together in unparalleled waysunmasking and examining the specter of manmade disaster.
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Hurricane Katrina. The Flint water crisis. Thousands dead, lives destroyed, and a natural world imperiled by human choices. This is the litany of our timeand these are the events that Rebecca Dunham traces, passionately and brilliantly, in Cold Pastoral. In poems that incorporate interviews and excerpts from government documents and other sourcespoems that adopt the pastoral...