"When the Edges Come Home": a Collection of Poems About the End of the World Told Through the Lens of the Prophet Zephaniah

An imploding sun. A bird's nest knocked out of its tree. A panic attack in the middle of a power outage. A spiraling tower made of diamonds, stretching into the sky. A married couple splitting up in a public, no-holds-barred fight.

This collection of thirty poems explores the idea of the apocalypse through an analysis of the book of Zephaniah, as found in the Hebrew Bible. What do we mean when we talk about "the end of the world"? Why are we scared of the idea of doomsday? And in a social order defined by inequality and exploitation, what if one person's apocalypse is another person's liberation?

Thousands of years ago, the message of Zephaniah was that something big was coming, something that would shift the status quo completely - in a world of mounting anxiety, these poems try to capture that feeling in a modern, vital way; walking on the tightrope between hopeful and horrified the whole way through.