A poetry collection that considers climate change and the possibility of wholeness within the Anthropocene.
 
Through a series of experimental poems centered on ecology, Anthony Cody’s The Rendering confronts the history of the Dust Bowl and its residual impacts on our current climate crisis, while acknowledging the complicities of capitalism. These poems grapple with questions of wholeness and annihilation in an Anthropocenic world where the fallout of settler colonialism continues to inflict environmental and cultural devastation. Cody encourages readers to participate in radical acts of refreshing and reimagining the page, poem, collection, and the self, and he invites us to reflect on what lies ahead should our climate continue on its current trajectory toward destruction.

These poems consider if wholeness, or a journey toward wholeness, can exist in the Anthropocene. And, if wholeness cannot exist in these times, we are invited to look at our lives and the world through and beyond annihilation.
 

Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha, which won the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, a 2022 Whiting Award, 2021 American Book Award, 2020 Southwest Book Award, 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN America / Jean Stein Award, and the L.A. Times Book Award, among others. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Magma, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, NinthLetter, Prairie Schooner, ctrl+v journal, and TriQuarterly, among others. He coedited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology, and he coedited and cotranslated Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica. He serves as poetry editor for Noemi Press and Omnidawn, and he lives with his partner, poet Mai Der Vang, in Fresno, California.