Romantic Portrait of a Natural Disaster

<p>If you're looking for a short-yet-compelling book of poetry relevant to the current state of the world look no further. <em>Romantic Portrait of a Natural Disaster</em> is a chapbook-length collection of poems in which up-and-coming poet Hannah Cajandig-Taylor navigates what it means to live in a world that seems to always be ending. From images of mountain glaciers to cosmic odes and everything in-between her work implores the reader to consider what happens when we are honest and vulnerable about the way in which we destroy both the world and ourselves.</p><p><br></p><p>Though many of these poems have been published in prominent literary journals such as Pretty Owl Poetry Sonora Review and LandLocked Magazine nearly two-thirds of these works are appearing in-print for the first time. This chapbook also contains Cajandig-Taylor's prose poem/hybrid piece You as Apocalypse which was nominated by Gordon Square Review for a Best Small Fictions award in 2019.</p><p><br></p><p>However all of the poems in this book have three things in common: a desire to look to the clouds and constellations for escape a desire to understand how things fall apart and a desire to find hope in a world that constantly breaks. Furthermore the underlying threads of anxiety weather astronomy and nostalgia stitch these poems together into a beautiful and chaotic mess in which we are urged to find something lovely in the darkest of places.</p>