Alt-Nature

To foil the context was to outrun the authority's imagination. And to refuse all explanations of why whatwe felt was not real. To disarm the wolf every time at every gate. Unthread its learnedness and don the lonely pelt. The poems of Alt-Nature move in desert dreams and riverbeds. Here, geography forms the basis offeeling and connection in the American Southwest. Being and becoming along meridians ofenvironmental degradation, globalized/ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinksthrough the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love.