M. P. Jones IV is a Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Florida where he works with the journal TRACE and is editor-in-chief of Kudzu House Quarterly. Reflections on the Dark Water, his second poetry collection, is forthcoming from Solomon & George in spring 2016. Recent publications include co-editing Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Lexington 2015); poetry in Canary, Tampa Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere; book reviews in StorySouth, The Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Visit his website: ecopoiesis.com.
Spring 2016
Resetting Our “Creature-clocks”: Michelle Detorie’s After-Cave
From its first line—“I am 15. Female. Human (I think).”—we know After-Cave skirts the lines of being and becoming. Consider the subtlety of “Human (I think),” through the Descartian question and possibility of one existing as human.