Oil Spell

Oil Spell gathers many of todays dark energiesUS drone strikes, environmental disasterand asks: what kind of tool is poetry to mirror these violences? Oil Spell animates diverse influencesDorothy Wordsworths journals, environmental reports of extinction and endangerment, and the Pakistani government assessments of drone strikes. Oil Spell performs the ways in which narratives of loss and narratives of everyday joy curl into one another and mutually contaminate. The beauty that results is a troubled reflection, like a rainbow in a slick of oil.