How to Prepare for Flooding

How to Prepare for Flooding is a collection of poems modeled on the how-to manuals and survival guides that rattle around your toolbox and clog up your glove compartment. Chock-a-block with illustrations and useful tips, these poems will prepare readers for a raft of natural and personal disasters such as “How to Survive a Plane Crash” and “How to Sew a Button.” But more than that, How to Prepare for Flooding asks, over and over, what’s the difference between wild and tame? Natural and unnatural? Also, is this REALLY where we find ourselves?