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Our Human Shores
Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene, the ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.
Our Human Shores is an exploration into how language is rooted within the Anthropocene — and how poetry shapes meaning-making, faith in people and institutions, and death through lyricism, experiment, and ecopoetics. Using a phrase from John Keats’ “Bright Star” sonnet, Our Human Shores explores a tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world, our experience of nature, and our relationship with climate, creation, and humankind’s existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse.
Our Human Shores is a speculative work that will guide humanity through extinction.
Our Human Shores is an exploration into how language is rooted within the Anthropocene — and how poetry shapes meaning-making, faith in people and institutions, and death through lyricism, experiment, and ecopoetics. Using a phrase from John Keats’ “Bright Star” sonnet, Our Human Shores explores a tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world, our experience of nature, and our relationship with climate, creation, and humankind’s existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse.
Our Human Shores is a speculative work that will guide humanity through extinction.
184 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2025
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September 25, 2025
I'm calling this a 4.5/5 but it's closer to a 5 then a 4 so let's round up.
This collection is transcendently kaleidoscopic. Even when the IT of the thing escapes me, which on this first reading, some of it does, it is so brilliantly beautiful. It takes a microscopic shift of focus to click into the slot and suddenly you're flying right alongside the poet and you can really see where we are and where we're going - and then you drop out again.
But you can still appreciate the forest for the trees, is the whole thing of it. Whether the prophetic, sweeping, apocalyptic grandeur of this collection clarifies in its totality or not, there are phrases of stunning beauty on every page. And this tracks with what I think is the crux of the thing - the multifacetedness of language and experience and the way this influences how we perceive our world, ourselves, and everything around us.
I cannot wait to revisit this, and I don't just mean once more, but I mean regularly, annually, more often. I can't wait to see what the kaleidoscope shows me next time - because you'll never see the exact same thing twice, is the thing.
This collection is transcendently kaleidoscopic. Even when the IT of the thing escapes me, which on this first reading, some of it does, it is so brilliantly beautiful. It takes a microscopic shift of focus to click into the slot and suddenly you're flying right alongside the poet and you can really see where we are and where we're going - and then you drop out again.
But you can still appreciate the forest for the trees, is the whole thing of it. Whether the prophetic, sweeping, apocalyptic grandeur of this collection clarifies in its totality or not, there are phrases of stunning beauty on every page. And this tracks with what I think is the crux of the thing - the multifacetedness of language and experience and the way this influences how we perceive our world, ourselves, and everything around us.
I cannot wait to revisit this, and I don't just mean once more, but I mean regularly, annually, more often. I can't wait to see what the kaleidoscope shows me next time - because you'll never see the exact same thing twice, is the thing.
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