Add to ORKGThe poems in this collection explore the deindustrialization of the authors home, a factory town in northern Indiana, and in other industrial towns throughout the rust belt. The poems inherently deal with socioeconomic class and weave in themes of queerness, grief, bodies of water, loss—all amidst coming of age in a landscape that seems to be plotting the demise of its inhabitants, as well as the demise of the environment. Though the poems deal specifically with ruin: abandoned factories, and drug overdoses, the poet works toward understanding beauty and queer love in this complicated setting
