Main entry:

Lo, Cheena Marie, author.

Title & Author:

A series of un/natural/disasters / Cheena Marie Lo.

Publication:

Oakland, California : Commune Editions, [2016]
©2016

Description:

1 online resource (64 pages)

Notes:
Poems.
Always ready -- Because another tropical storm is looming -- Connect policy to built environment -- Consider definition -- Direct sunlight looking over 4725 Dauphine Street -- How there was so much water -- How nature is layered on the manmade -- "It keeps getting better" -- "0" -- "2 15 10 75 40" -- New maps -- Orange X spraypainted on eight lines -- Poor marks for his handling of Federal response -- Q: what happened? -- So what about the instinct to survive -- Something about being maddened by hunger -- See also: -- Successive water lines on door in Lakeview -- A state could be said to "succeed" -- Some of the basic conditions and responsibilities of -- Translate into data to translate -- Towards the amalgamation of larger divisions -- The state is in danger of collapse -- (Unspeakable this anxiety I am -- Variable description list -- Warning signs and signals -- We are alone -- We have backup generators to accommodate -- White bedsheets wave from windows -- X-codes mark the spot on every home -- Xs may shine with startling clarity -- Yellow house leaning forward -- Zones are color-coded and labeled A, B and C.

Summary:

A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters is attentive to the sort of mutual aid and possibility that appear in moments of state failure. As such it maps long and complicated equations, moving from Katrina to the prisoners at Riker's Island as they await Sandy. It understands disaster as a collective system, the state as precarious, and community as necessary.

Resources:
Free eBook from the Internet Archive
Additional information and access via Open Library
Online Resource

ISBN:

(pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781934639191
1934639192

Subject:

Natural disasters Poetry.
Catastrophes naturelles Poésie.
POETRY / American / Asian American.
POETRY / LGBT.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Natural disasters

Form/genre:

Poetry.
poetry.
Poésie.

Added entries:

Series of unnatural disasters