Bearing witness to present calamities, Fires Seen from Space investigates impermanence within planetary poly-crisis. Through ekphrastic poems and engagements with older texts, Fagin discovers enchantment within disintegrating forms and corrupted systems. These poems celebrate moments of simplicity and ease while facing catastrophic change, weaving deep relational webs to bind isolated efforts of resistance.

“Fires Seen from Space always implies our isolated human hive within the Uranian. Indeed, a smidgen over four light years from our closest Sun implies our trenchant isolation where even partial light travel reeks of impossibility, where ‘statements statements prevailing against dark times’ remain frail reminder of our present circumstance.”
—Will Alexander