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Poetry. Women's Studies. California Interest. AFTER-CAVE is the narration of an adolescent female who may or may not be human, an odyssey feral, feminist, and ecopoetical. More pressing than hunger for this speaker is the need to know what cruelty means and how one might live in its absence. In this way, AFTER-CAVE is a book about the impossible and how to make it hospitable, and thereby prepare oneself to meet one's friends: human, animal, the always alive and the already dead. Using language that moves over the speaker like weather systems and migratory birds, troubling notions of linear time and traversing the spaces of human-made and natural disaster, Detorie in this first book introduces us to the distinction between a state of being and an act of being.
