Eleni Sikelianos, "a master of mixing genres" (Time Out New York),
further bends time and space in Your Kingdom, **an ode to our
more-than-human animal origins. As she studies the wild roots of our
past, present, and future, Sikelianos, one of our foremost practitioners
of ecopoetic exploration, finds solace in the complexity of our natural
lineage as we face the environmental precarity of the present.
**Our shoulders and hips were invented by salamanders. Hidden motives
bind us to cuckoos and caterpillars. Our faces form biological maps
while our organs trace the shapes of our animal ancestors. From the
cellular to the celestial, Your Kingdom inquisitively and
energetically investigates our notion of biological kingdoms, calling us
to "let the body feel all its own evolution inside."