About to Disappear

<p><em>About to Disappear </em>is a poetry collection that explores the limits of ekphrasis; that is descriptions and reflections on works of art in order to expand their meaning. The book is separated into four sections: Ex Nihilo Adaptation Law of Attraction and Ad Nihilum. The first and final sections-translated as from nothing returning to nothing-act as bookends. Ex Nihilo includes poems about imagination optics creation and and development; while poems in the final section Ad Nihilum are about trauma unmaking climate change and catastrophe. Poems in the middle sections are about artistic psychological and physical transformations and natural history and community. Artworks included are from contemporary artists-as well as such artists as Vermeer Grant Wood John Singer Sargent and Edward Hopper.</p>