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AMANDA HODES

WRITER & SOUND ARTIST 

Book

Into the Into of Earth Itself   (poetry)

Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen

Forthcoming on Black Lawrence Press, September 2026

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Preorder through Black Lawrence Press

Read more about Into the Into of Earth Itself here. 

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“Astonished, dumbfounded, horrified and agape at this symphonic opus which documents two sites of ecological disaster: Centralia, PA, a bulldozed near-ghost town where a coal mine fire has been burning underground since 1962, and Palmerton, PA, just an hour away, ‘one of the largest Superfund sites of the east, home’ to the speaker [...]. Amanda Hodes singularly emerges with her own alchemical lyric of excavation that exposes the corporate exploitation of land, exploitative and dangerous ‘dark tourism’ and the extracted innocence of girls. The book aptly quotes ecofeminist scholar Vandana Shiva: this is ‘a culture of rape — rape of the Earth, of local self-reliant economies, of women.’ Here, the mined corpus is that of the exploiters, of exploitation itself. This is a searing indictment for our times.”

                                                                                                            —Diana Khoi Nguyen,  author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of

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"Into the Into of Earth Itself is a habitat, a survey, and a sculpture rendered by the brilliant and original multimedia artist Amanda Hodes. Her work is always immersive and meticulously researched, and this work of documentary poetry draws on every register available to a poet to tell the stories of both ecological and private wounds caused by environmental catastrophe. The book is dense with original forms that evoke the precarious experiences of people living in the liminal spaces of extractive industry and damaged ecosystems."                                                                                                                                                               —Carmen Giménez, author of Be Recorder

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  • "Preface" and "BUG to BUG" (poems) forthcoming in 3 Sisters Literary

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  • "Pennsylvania Homecoming with Wheatfields and Haunted Maze" (poem) forthcoming in Poetry Northwest

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  • "A Brief Survey on Nature" (poem) forthcoming in FENCE

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  • "Climate Glitch" and "Cleaning the Corpus [or, Fable]" (poems) forthcoming in Gulf Coast

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  • "Video Game Progress Narrative" (poem) in Raleigh Review (15.2)

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  • "New Media Writing and the Body" (essay) in MAYDAY

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  • "The Technology Of" (poem) in Black Warrior Review (49.2)

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  • “Spinning Walks,” a digital browser-based new media piece, created in collaboration with 3 writers across the globe, in Quarterly West issue 109

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  • Two poems republished on Osmosis Press Featured Writing Blog

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  • "Woman in Sickness, Performance" in Denver Quarterly 55.3

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  • 3 Poems on New Writing Net, 2020

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