Adaptations

By VA Smith

Adaptation as trope, science, and story is a throughline in this collection. Its title nods both to accommodations to change as well as correcting/resisting a variety of existential, environmental, and historical toxins. In free verse and fixed forms, and in a variety of styles and idioms, a central speaker acts as a Greek/pop chorus, singing songs about an imperiled natural world as well as the tragi-comic adaptations of human being. The collection concludes with a Mobius strip series, " On Evolutionary Adaptability: A Cthulucene, Sonnet Crown." These final poems ask the reader to participate in a decentered human, activist planetary repair rather than adapt to the sufferings of climate-driven doom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F3L3JKNZ
• ISBN13: 9798991413473
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Green Writers Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 6.0"