Our Human Shores

Josh Fomon

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Black Ocean
03 July 2025

Poetry; Applied ecology; Global warming

Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene, the ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.

Our Human Shores is an exploration into how language is rooted within the Anthropocene - and how poetry shapes meaning-making, faith in people and institutions, and death through lyricism, experiment, and ecopoetics. Using a phrase from John Keats' ""Bright Star"" sonnet, Our Human Shores explores a tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world, our experience of nature, and our relationship with climate, creation, and humankind's existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse.

Our Human Shores

is a speculative work that will guide humanity through extinction.

By: Josh Fomon
Imprint: Black Ocean
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781965154014
ISBN 10: 1965154018
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 03 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Josh Fomon is the author of Though We Bled Meticulously, also published by Black Ocean. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Afternoon Visitor, Caketrain, DIAGRAM, DREGINALD, The Georgia Review, jubilat, mercury firs, Poetry Northwest, TYPOandYalobusha Review. He lives on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples in Seattle.

Reviews for Our Human Shores

“In Our Human Shores, Josh Fomon takes on the difficult situation of our country and world in a voice that vibrates between prophetic and private, apocalyptic and lyrical. If it's Whitmanesque it's the Whitman of the radical Latin American poets. Fomon's poems mourn, hope, and struggle. His language is sensuous, glistering. When I read it, I can feel the words in my mouth.”—Johannes Gorannson, author of The New Quarantine