Elizabeth Cantwell, ”ALL THE EMERGENCY-TYPE STRUCTURES”

Elizabeth Cantwell's poems navigate both cultural anxieties—climate change, American consumerism, technological creep—and personal anxieties—motherhood, apocalyptic thinking, suburban complacency. What does it mean to face a future in which building emergency-type structures may be necessary for our survival, and what materials can we use to insulate those structures?  

All the Emergency-Type Structures guides readers through a lyrical and incisive examination of a potential way to navigate scientifically-predicted apocalyptic visions, the destructive beauty of family, and the dense forests of our collective cultural uncertainties as we attempt to create spaces that feel like home amid rising seas, private space expeditions to Mars, births, breakups, terrifying dreams, and mass extinction events.