RaveThe DiagramWeaving together imagery of the raw Appalachian beauty of Walsh\'s childhood and the contemporary contamination of that place, [a] comparison to Silent Spring is not too far off. The poems are in no way a treatise, but they bear a resemblance to that opening chapter, envisioning an apocalyptic outcome as well as seeing how blindly we are bringing that end upon ourselves... Lyrical and resonant, filled with sound and beautiful juxtapositions between the built and natural, or the ecological and the Anthropocene, Reckonings manages to be an elegy for the lost world and those who populated it and also a call for our world to end so that we can \'gather like new-days monks\' in a better place, one where we can forget the names of stars and reckon our friends\' faces by firelight and maybe cup our hands and drink from the rivers and streams.
