Editor’s Note

ISLE 31.1 opens with Emily McGiffin's "Raced and Erased: Settler Colonialism and Environmental Violence in the Poetry of Jordan Abel," the Editor's Choice for this issue.McGiffin argues that "the structures and institutions of settler colonialism, including residential schools that have profoundly affected Abel's life and work, support an ongoing process of environmental violence and environmental racism.""In examining the politics and representational strategies of Abel's poetry," specifically erasure and bricolage, McGiffin discusses "how his work brings into focus the human and environmental violences whose legacies and current enactments continue to shape life in colonial Canada."Sarah Hopkinson, in "Talking Trash: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones and the Timescape of Disaster," examines how "the devastated landscapes in this novel present disaster not as spectacular event but rather as persistently inhabited space."By moving beyond the oppressive discourse of the spectacular disaster narrative, Hopkinson argues, "Ward's Salvage the Bones makes visible past acts of violence normatively hidden by time, while also unearthing alternative kinship networks from the detritus-and trash-of racial capitalism."In "Where 'the Cloud' Touches the Ground: Electronic Poetry, Digital Infrastructures and the Environment," Natalie Pollard offers a close reading of J.R. Carpenter's 2016-2017 poem-essay The Gathering Cloud, "analyzing how Carpenter's layering and sedimenting of textual and graphic sources illustrates how old media physically undergirds new media."Additionally, Pollard examines how Carpenter's "e-text's literary remediation of industry generated language and