“Danger Days boldly confronts political and ecological collapse head-on—and shows us that poetry has the ability both to chronicle and battle back the apocalypse, with brilliantly rendered moments of beauty, wonder, love, and sly humor. Pierce takes on lockdown drills, spiders, violent storms, carcinogens, toxic algae blooms, tender-age shelters, retreating glaciers, horror movies, dangerous animals and even quicksand—and weaves them into luminous odes to humanity and domesticity in the Anthropocene, giving us a way to muddle through. ‘Darling,’ she writes, ‘here is a sky polluted / with our city. Kiss me under it.’” —Erika Meitner

“In these stunning poems, Pierce contends with what it means to bring life into a dying world, to still try and admire the loveliness of endings and realize that the fears we were raised with are different than the ones our children will inherit. Guilt, grief, and romance each invent their necessary languages to help us bear what we witness. This book is gorgeous and aching and full of the most beautiful high dangers.” —Traci Brimhall

“Catherine Pierce reminds us to wade out into the danger—each political unraveling and ecological disaster—with wide eyes. This is a radical act of hope Pierce performs with grace, lyric finesse, and unflinching vulnerability. I am awestruck by the clarity of vision and bighearted beauty conjured here—an antidote to alternative facts. A love letter to future generations about a planet once flush with polar bears and intact ice shelves. Danger Days is an honest-to-goodness gift. Read it and be restored.” —Marcus Wicker

The cover of Danger Days comes from David Curran’s heatmap visualization of the world’s temperature anomalies each month since 1850. Full data and image can be found here.

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