This work in process is an experimental book-length poem that invents new formal structures to marry global, ecological themes of loss—focused around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—to personal, confessional ones. By utilizing a number of innovative lyric techniques within the larger arc of an accessible narrative, the book endeavors to create a contemporary (anti-) epic for a crisis almost beyond the scale of the human imagination. The pioneering use of self-erasure, as an expression of ecological loss and a vehicle for investigating aesthetic constructions, represents one of several unique innovations of this collection. Excerpts have recently been published in The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, and OmniVerse.
