An activist conscious dialogue, Marcia Slatkin’s poetry collection brims with a lyrical assertiveness in its minimal token narratives of the ever-changing features of Earth as well as the stagnant qualities of humanity. Cheese After Fukushima laments an impending future occupied by melted ice capes, fishless oceans, persistence of global obesity, the absence of CO2, and a wheezing Earth suffocated under city sidewalks. These wildly inventive poems of forewarning is backed with a beautiful linguistic language complemented by a direct honest undertone that crafts a complex polarity which brings an element of beauty to the otherwise stark and disrepair descriptions of our own reality. Cheese After Fukushima ventures in a global landscape of the
