The Rendering

Anthony Cody's The Rendering is a poetry collection that explores climate change and the possibility of wholeness within the Anthropocene. It confronts the history of the Dust Bowl and its residual impacts on our current climate crisis, while acknowledging the complicities of capitalism. 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.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 06 May 2023
Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing

The Rendering is a poetry collection by Anthony Cody that explores climate change and the possibility of wholeness within the Anthropocene. Through a series of experimental poems centered on ecology, Cody 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.

Weight: 208g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781632431141