Named One Of The Best Poetry Collections Of 2024 By Lit Hub And Electric Literaturefinalist For The 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award In Poetryfinalist For The 2025 Clmp Firecracker Award In Poetryfinalist For The Lambda Award For Transgender Poetryconsider The Rooster Serves As An Ode To A Roosters Crow, A Catalyst For Awakening, Both Literally And Figuratively.amidst The Covid-19 Pandemic, The Aftermath Of George Floyds Murder By Police, And The Resulting Upsurge In Reactionary Right-wing Militia Violence, A Neighbor In Kalamazoo, Michigan Threatens To Call The Police After Discovering The Authors Pet Rooster. The Rooster Sounds The Alarm And Our Author Wakes To Revolutionary Transformation. An Ecological Consciousness Embedded In These Verses Invites Readers To Acknowledge Their Place In A Web Of Relations.