Shifting baseline syndrome / Aaron Kreuter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreuter, Aaron, author.

Series:

Oskana Poetry & Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental degradation.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2022]

Summary:

A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. Nature isnt dying its simply revising its target audience In Shifting Baseline Syndrome , Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions: will the Anthropocene have a laugh track? Is it okay to marry your eighteenth cousin? How different would the world look from outside the life-frame of the human? What is it like to have an acid trip in a portapotty? Is it the end . . . of Earth? Of capitalism? Of television? Throughout Kreuters sophomore collection, the TV remote is never far. Shifting Baseline Syndrome is both searching and searing, veering between satire and sincerity, history and prophecy, and human and non-human worlds. As these clash ecstatically with loathing--and with the end looming--Kreuter demonstrates why well keep doing what weve always done: hoping, for once, that the series finale will be good.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I. Like Humidity

II. Just Another Name for Anthropocene

III. The Last River

Notes

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-88977-855-8

OCLC:

1285130318