With the distinct visual presentation of a collage or painting, language in Barbara Tomash’s Of Residue cascades in layers down the page, generating energy, forming pockets and adhesions within its columnar container. In her commitment to a process of research and assemblage, Tomash draws our attention to the materiality of words: how they link up, flow together, and resonate across time and space when the usual structures of punctuation and syntax are removed and a different frame is made to house them. Begun as a memorial to fellow poet, editor, and social activist Marthe Reed, the poems in Of Residue contain tender examples of a wondrous natural world entwined with the destructive reality of climate change. Tomash invites us to move freely through the eternal life cycles of our own planet, appreciating the motion and beauty in the remainder, the coalesced.