Penguin poets.

"A collection of short untitled poems in two parts that explore personal and collective inherited traumas, from a poet who "[refuses] the mind's limits" (Carol Muske-Dukes) Borderline Fortune is a meditation on intangible family inheritance--of unresolved intergenerational conflicts and traumas in particular--set against the backdrop of our planetary inheritance as a species. As native species go extinct and glaciers melt, Teresa K. Miller asks what we owe one another and what it means to echo one's ancestors' grief and fear. Drawing on her own family history, from her great-grandfather's experience as a schoolteacher on an island in the Bering Strait to her father's untimely death in 2006, and her own pursuit of regenerative horticulture, Miller seeks to awaken from the intergenerational trance and bear witness to our current moment with clarity and attention"--