Fuel

The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-fueled world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives.

Traversing the underworld of Central Valley oil fields and champagne rooms, Stockton articulates blurry modes of extraction, consent, gender, and labor as they interact and overlap in the shadow of environmental and social collapse. Fuel illuminates the ways oil lubricates, saturates, and even drives our most intimate relations, ultimately infecting our inner worlds with fantasies of “The End.”