
The Long Now Conditions Permit
Poems
Jami Macarty(Author)
University of Nevada Press
Published on 2. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-64779-203-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Long Now Conditions Permit confronts the persistent brutalities of our world through poetry that both names and resists the injustices shaping it. From the quiet sorrows of everyday slight to the overwhelming crises of ecological collapse and gendered violence, these poems document what is occurring-the horrendous and the intimate, the anguished and the magnificent.
With ethical attention, Jami Macarty's collection engages the political, ecological, and personal forces that shape and mark our lives, offering an ecofeminist ethic of care as an antidote to extractive capitalism and patriarchal norms. Each poem meditates on power, insists on articulating what is being lost-and what must be saved and reclaimed.
Amid the exploitation and violence, these poems find moments of grace: the scent of a sea rose, a desert walk in spring, the company of birds, Earth entire. The Long Now Conditions Permit is both tender elegy and urgent call, exhorting readers to grapple with the devastating failings of humanity and the saving possibilities of love.
With ethical attention, Jami Macarty's collection engages the political, ecological, and personal forces that shape and mark our lives, offering an ecofeminist ethic of care as an antidote to extractive capitalism and patriarchal norms. Each poem meditates on power, insists on articulating what is being lost-and what must be saved and reclaimed.
Amid the exploitation and violence, these poems find moments of grace: the scent of a sea rose, a desert walk in spring, the company of birds, Earth entire. The Long Now Conditions Permit is both tender elegy and urgent call, exhorting readers to grapple with the devastating failings of humanity and the saving possibilities of love.
Reviews / Votes
"Jami Macarty's spectacular The Long Now Conditions Permit reveals a complex geography of gendered histories and unveiled violences through history and nature. Her poems are rendered in conditions where power circulates as moving, internal portraits and through Steinian-like modes of repetition where description begs the juridical, form weds content in Macarty's deft sonic registers." - Ronaldo V. Wilson, Test Site Poetry Advisory Board, author of Virgil Kills: Stories and Poems of the Black Object"Venturing farther along trajectories first aumbrated by Laura Riding and Barbara Guest, The Long Conditions Now Permit recalls language to its original mysteries and to its luminary status among the lights and highlights of real phenomena. In these poems, reverence and discovery enact a beautiful partnership. The results are revelatory." - Donald Revell, professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, author of The English Boat
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Reno
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64779-203-9 (9781647792039)
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Jami Macarty is the author of The Minuses, winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-Poetry Arizona, and four chapbooks, including The Whole Catastrophe and Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Macarty's writing is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council, and the generous editors of such American and Canadian literary magazines as Colorado Review, Interim, Vallum, and Volt. Macarty supports other writers as an independent mentor, editor, and reviewer, and as a creative writing teacher at Simon Fraser University. Macarty lives in and learns from the arborescent desert around Tucson, Arizona, and the rain coast of Vancouver, British Columbia.