Adaptations: Poems

Adaptation as trope, science, and story is a throughline in this collection. Its title nods both to accommodations to change as well as correcting/resisting a variety of existential, environmental, and historical toxins. In free verse and fixed forms, and in a variety of styles and idioms, a central speaker acts as a Greek/pop chorus, singing songs about an imperiled natural world as well as the tragi-comic adaptations of human being. The collection concludes with a Mobius strip series, " On Evolutionary Adaptability: A Cthulucene, Sonnet Crown." These final poems ask the reader to participate in a decentered human, activist planetary repair rather than adapt to the sufferings of climate-driven doom.

• | Author: Va Smith
• | Publisher: Green Writers Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 20, 2026
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-13: 9798991413473