Alt-Nature

Alt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest.

These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality. Landscapes and Black queer social ecologies illuminate an anti-map of interior poetics and converging horizons. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling. Being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation, globalized/ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love.

ISBN-13: 9781566896979

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Publication Date: 02-06-2024

Pages: 160

Saretta Morgan's work engages the affective afterlife of militarization, incarceration, and US Imperialism, particularly as they're lived out through a Black queer femme body and attention to practices of land. She lives on Akimel O'odham lands in Phoenix, AZ.