Lost City Hydrothermal Field

Poetry. Hybrid Genre. LGBTQIA Studies. Science Fiction. Drawing on the work of such thinkers as John McPhee Rachel Carson Timothy Morton Frank White and others LOST CITY HYDROTHERMAL FIELD explores philosophies of nature old and new through poetry and science fiction. The anthropocene crisis and the crisis of humanity-as-invasive-species are framed in this text as global as well as personal misadventures. A mixed-genre work readers encounter poems and storiesislands and continentsin a rapid succession of speculative geography and readers are invited to join its beleaguered psychozoic populations. Peter Milne Greiners poems range widely across space time and cultural historyfrom the Magna Carta to The Little Mermaid from the pyramids to the astronomical observatory at Mauna Keaand catch up in their full-throttle trajectory a universe of detail about the nature of things. Indeed the poets brooding over the fate of Geena Davis as well as that of lame dystopias suggests nothing so much as Lucretiuss epic enterprise: I mine human doing Greiner declares for all its garish hyper objects. By deploying a language alert to figurative provocation thats sharpened by a tautly disjunctive syntax Greiner uncovers the apocalypse in the quotidian and raises everyday life to fearsome implication. Albert Mobilio LOST CITY HYDROTHERMAL FIELD is in the world but its not of it. Peter Milne Greiner is the voice of the cosmic mundanesublime real and existentially funny. Claire L. Evans