Plenty

Using Walt Whitman's <i>Leaves of Grass</i> as a springboard Corinne Lee's second book of poetry is an eco-epic that investigates and embodies the deterioration of America's environment due to industrial agriculture fossil fuels war racism and technology. Lee's book-length work draws upon a variety of poetic forms and histories--especially events in 1892 which included a surge in lynching in America and the beginning of our coup d'état of Hawaii--to examine how modern technology facilitated the Holocaust sustains America's racist prison industrial complex fuels climate change and ultimately underlies what has been called the Sixth Extinction. A daring and dazzling narrative of great originality <i>Plenty</i> advocates a feminist ecobuddhist perspective: only by dismantling false hierarchies especially those of patriarchal capitalism are we able to recognize that all agents of environmental collapse are one with us.