Console (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Colin Channer contains poems that explore etymologies of sound, including elements of confessional, explorative, and philosophical verse. Global in their scope, the narratives of the poems move from New England to the Caribbean, focused on the shifting realities of the Anthropocene with both playfulness and stoicism that avoid a didactic approach. Binding the poems is a sense of memory’s power to both capture and forsake what is truly important, exhorting the reader to pay attention.