Satellite View

Satellite View inhabits a personal dreamscape of the New West, traveling from the Colorado Plateau to the California coast and back again. Lance Newman's poems respond to signs and traces on the land, including the scars of breakneck development, the impact of climate change, and the violence of war and border control. Newman laments our detachment from each other and from the natural world, while finding moments of hope and connection in images as various as Cahuilla artifacts on a desert trail, volunteer plants at a construction site, and a coyote den in an oilfield.