Cheese After FukushimaMarcia SlatkinLabel: Stephen F. Austin State University PressDescription: An activist conscious dialogue Marcia Slatkin’s Cheese After Fukushima laments an impending future occupied by melted ice caps fishless oceans persistence of global obesity the absence of CO2 and a wheezing Earth suffocated under city sidewalks. These wildly inventive poems are backed with a beautiful linguistic language which brings an element of beauty to the otherwise stark descriptions of our own reality.Cheese after Fukushima If I were young my ovaries prodding possibility squirming newness still in my future I might stop. Rain brings rads to grass unknowing ruminants munch and the rest is amplification. “Then buy skim packed before the Japanese release – enough for a lifetime -- and mix your ration daily says the health ‘umai.’ But I’d so mourn lessened pleasure: that thick milk-magic that lets enzymes ferment and grow wildly-unctuous tastes undreamed...
