Keith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmentalism in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, The Ecocentrists explores how it challenged civilization but glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people's relationships to the nonhuman world.
An amazing work of art, life-enhancing and unique, these poems will thrill and chill you. Dark and interesting, vivid and passionate, varying between the apocryphal and the divine, colourful and full of bouncing metaphors, the work was written entirely within the walls of a psychiatric hospital. An acerbic sense of alacrity crossed with hard hitting truths and a supersonic clarity. As an artist as well as a writer, Keith's poems are born from a transcendental vision of reality and a truth to which only he is party.