Ram Hands

With a startling mix of humor and conviction, RAM HANDS unveils the anxieties of ecological desperation and parenting in the Anthropocene. These poems are an epoch photobombing a selfie, a whale stuffed in a plastic bag, a mouth that tastes of gasoline, a call to arms against arms, and a multifarious assemblage of comedy, animality, and profound human sadness. RAM HANDS reflects on the stench of human complicity; it asks us, yes, we can evolve, but to what end? The speakers in Ellen Welcker's poems ache to become better citizens of the world, and in this aching we, too, lament and hope.