Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2022 Emory Elliott Book Award Finalist for the 2023 Firecracker Award Finalist for the 2023 ASLE Creative Book Award Interweaving elegy indictment and hope into a love letter to California Look at This Blue examines Americaampamprsquos genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril. Truths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this booklength poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments these poems form a taxonomy of threatened livesampampmdashhuman plant and animalampampmdashin a century marked by climate emergency.