At the Unmaking

This collection of poetry explores the multiple tipping points facing humanity at the opening of the 21st century and the end of the industrial age. Resource depletion, species loss and global warming are just a few of the existential threats examined in this work. I believe that the way beyond these crises requires examining the narratives we're inherited and imagining new tales of people, place and planet that can deliver us to a more ecologically just future. This thesis is an offering toward that end. At the Unmaking is a lament for what we have lost and are losing. It is also a prayer calling up the wisdom required to remake our lives in a more interconnected and whole way. All unmaking and making demands stories about where we have been and where we might go. I have written these poems not to mark an end, but to mark the eternal return to a new beginning.