Using text and images, moving jaggedly across the page and across ideas, creating ever expanding loops, Sikelianos asks how it is we have come to wreck earth’s ecosystem—and continue to wreck it—in a hedonistic pursuit of happiness. Nostalgia and regret for our natural and built environments spin each section forward to no comforting conclusion.
Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living and the Dead and The California Poem, which was a Barnes & Noble Best of the Year, as well as hybrid memoirs, The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek). Sikelianos teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver. A California native, longtime New Yorker, and world traveler, she now lives in Boulder with her husband, the novelist Laird Hunt, and their daughter, Eva Grace.
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