In tightly woven yet ludic lyrics, this collection of five long poems mines tropes from embryology, morphology, and silent film to consider the first and lost causes at the foundation of a personal, social, and historical life. 
“Not the female or male gaze, but the plant’s gaze.”
—Carrie Hunter

Out of the crises of our moment, Keith Newton’s first book of poems roams across time to explore our conflict with forces larger than ourselves.

“There is an eeriness to these metaphysical reflections, as if Newton has succeeded in drawing a map of the inside of an ever-questioning mind”.
—Mary Jo Bang

In a tour-de-force of one hundred sonnets, Rodrigo Toscano blends geopolitical critique with the challenges of media-saturated life, offering a sharp, sustaining read for those overwhelmed by the twenty-first century’s complexities.
“tremendously funny… as good as any sonnets being written today.”
—Shane McCrae