Kristen Case

An immersive, beautifully illustrated revelation of Henry David Thoreau's final project—a monthly almanac of natural phenomena. In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new. Part blueprint for a major new work, part scientific chart, and part re-envisioning of the way we experience the passage of time, Thoreau's Kalendar was more a tool than a text....

A meditation on the centrality of predation to the Western lyric tradition. In dialogue with Wittgenstein's On Certainty, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Thomas Wyatt's "Whoso List to Hunt," among other works, Kristen Case's poems and lyric essays unearth the ways violence both disrupts and enables our ways of knowing—or approximating knowledge of—one another.