“Iceland Is Melting and So Are You is a fierce and melancholy collection of poems that both directly and indirectly addresses the central concern of the twenty-first century: global warming. Talya Rubin’s carefully constructed poems are lyrical, compelling, and filled with the kind of passion that makes things happen. They’re centred around both the places in danger and the people who live in those places as they tell the stories we need to hear in this alarming time, ‘each year a story/of what we did/or did not/do.'” —Wyn Cooper, author of The Way Back

“What does it mean to grieve for a glacier? Iceland Is Melting and So Are You takes readers into the right now of the climate crisis, where the daily ‘thunder of collapse’ is deafening, yet too often ignored. Like a drill through an ice floe, Rubin pierces the numbing layers of human denial and selfish desire, reminding us that we, too, are saltwater. At once urgent and elegiac, these poems insist that we feel, fiercely, our ‘great belonging to the earth.'” —Claire Caldwell, author of Gold Rush

“In Talya Rubin’s Iceland Is Melting and So Are You, the poet is an expression and embodiment of the natural world in the throes of climate change. In this book, one will encounter ‘the tumble of glaciers and ice floes’ and remark how although, the ruckus goes ‘unnoticed,’ it is ‘everywhere in our veins.’ Rubin’s poetry goes to work, enacting what Goethe called, “active seeing”—joining the observer to the observed, resolving subject and object in an experience of poetic perception.” —Asa Boxer, author of The Narrow Cabinet