This work in process is a 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 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 use of self-erasure, as an expression of ecological loss and a vehicle for investigating aesthetic constructions, represents one of several innovations of this collection. Excerpts have been published in The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, and OmniVerse.
