Book’s focus on the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster provides opportunities for crossover media into larger markets interested in environmental consequences, and disaster similar in scope to Chernobyl Strong blurbs forthcoming; author’s previous work has been lauded by Ishmael Reed, Stephanie Burt, and Ray Gonzalez Author is Poet Laureate of South Dakota Author has been widely published in Poetry , Poem-a-Day, and Southeast Review