Justin’s first book of poems, Stock Pond, is now available for pre-order (they are shipping though) from Bench Editions:  Stock Pond

About the book: Stock Pond catalogs ecological and social impacts of industrial agriculture in the rural and the remote. Riffing on necropastoral and visionary poetics, Stock Pond proposes a cottage corrosive portrait of country life. These poems are especially concerned with living-with-animals in landscapes of runoff and hedge.

Praise for the book: Stock Pond is an astonishing incantation in which words call forth the animals and ghosts we live among. Here is an ecopoetics for the western landscape of algo and algae, nature and nitrates that we’re damned and awed to wander. These poems follow the movement of fence and drought, bleached skull and flight, what’s cut down and remembered, human and sung. Justin Cox has an ear for music and reckoning, what it is to “learn to love from cattle country.” I am stunned by this book—how it’s both praise song and fucked inventory, of what’s been done, what persists. —Hilary Plum, author of Strawberry Fields