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In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Adaptations was originally published by Nomadic.
Adaptations is an exercise in envisioning the worst case scenario and asking, “What next?” It explores concepts of alienation and survival in a world that’s largely inhospitable, and what it means to be human once traditional mechanisms of control and safety cease to exist.
Whether we like it or not, we are shaped to some large degree by our environment, manufactured in its grit and flame, infused by its wildness, synthetic or natural. Emily Pinkerton’s Adaptations bracingly engages with this indifferent reality-not as a way of coming to an acceptance but as an attempt to understand the impetus for transcendence.
– Oscar Villalon, Editor of ZYZZYVA
Adaptations is a fistfight between a memoirist and a cartographer, a place and a memory. A sister of sorts to 2016’s Natural Disasters, the chapbook is Emily Pinkerton at her best: a series of microcosms that are vivid, bleak beautiful. In ruins and yet always in motion. In “Dead Reckoning,” Pinkerton writes, “the directions are in me, like instinct / like bones” and later in “Sense of Direction,” “whether we die in the desert or the woods… we move forward.” Throughout Adaptations, time passes, winds whip, snow blankets, dust stings and above all, a heart beats, wildly.
– Sonya Vatomsky, author of And the Whale (2019)
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