"Territorial begins with origins–of an interstate system, of sexual threat inherited from myth, of 'some nocturnal female sense' a daughter learns on watch for cougars in a state of drought. Mira Rosenthal traces how these paths are cut and circumscribed by human violence, capitalism, environmental exploitation. It is deeply refreshing to see these forces intertwined in poem after poem, to see a book that is as sensual as it is intelligent, as critical of the self as it is of the larger world, as microscopically precise as it is wildly transgressive. Prepare to be unsettled and transfixed by this extraordinary collection." –Corey Van Landingham, author of Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens
