In its very form, the text demonstrates that serious theorizing and criticism may take place in a variety of ostensibly "uncritical" modes of languages; that the practice of drama or fiction are not merely objects of critical theory, but, ...

What We're Doing To Stay Afloat chronicles such watery conditions and offers poetry as one sort of kit containing tools fitted to the task of staying alive: humour, rage, hammer, buoy, radar, chart.