Extinction Level by Amorak Huey

“Amorak Huey’s Extinction Level hums with poems that play with heat (of love, of climate change), with epistemology (of climate change, of love), and with the kind of extreme brevity that reminds us how poems don’t need much at all to cut us down, or to the quick […] Small poem enthusiasts should be very grateful indeed that Amorak Huey is working his miniature magic at the same time we’re on this earth, however short a duration our hubris will prove that to be: as one of the last poems puts it, in reading Extinction Level “we learn to mourn,” but in the meantime you should enjoy the hell out of this collection.”

– Tom Snarsky, author of Light-Up Swan

Cover image: “Midas Touch” by Sheila Grant

Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024).