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"In a series of experimental ecopoems, The Rendering confronts the history of the Dust Bowl and its residual impacts into our current climate crisis while acknowledging the complicities of capitalism. These poems grapple with questions of wholeness and annihilation in an Anthropocenic world where the fallout of settler colonialism continues to inflict environmental and cultural devastation. Anthony Cody encourages readers to participate in the radical act of refreshing and re-imagining the page, poem, collection, and the self, while intuiting what lies ahead should our climate continue on its current destructive trajectory. The Rendering asks: can wholeness, or a journey toward wholeness, exist in the Anthropocene? And, if wholeness cannot exist in the Anthropocene, then what of the living, once the living have "achieved" annihilation?"--
About the author
Anthony Cody is the author of
Borderland Apocrypha, which won the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, a 2022 Whiting Award, 2021 American Book Award, 2020 Southwest Book Award, 2020
Poets & Writers debut poet, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN America / Jean Stein Award, and the L.A. Times Book Award, among others. His poetry has appeared in
Poetry,
Magma,
Colorado Review,
Gulf Coast,
NinthLetter,
Prairie Schooner,
ctrl+v journal, and
TriQuarterly, among others. He coedited
How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology, and he coedited and cotranslated Juan Felipe Herrera's
Akrílica. He serves as poetry editor for Noemi Press and Omnidawn, and he lives with his partner, poet Mai Der Vang, in Fresno, California.
