The third collection of poetry from Thea Brown, author of Think of
the Danger
In Loner Forensics, Thea Brown dreams up and dissects a city beset by
unexplained disappearances, roving silences, and climate collapse. This
sprawling collection comprises a series of interviews with denizens of
the shifting city, each mediated through the lonely lens of the
Detective, a character whose refractive investigation atomizes the
scene. As much a study of complicity as a critique of capitalism's
distortive effects on human emotional response, Loner Forensics
questions what happens when our innermost terrains become newly
unfamiliar in an unraveling natural world.
Dark, fractured, and canny, Brown's shimmering third collection draws on
parallel universes, 1980s video games, social media pop-speak, and ghost
towns to immerse the reader in grief, utopia, disaster--and, ultimately,
love.