Invasives

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“In his first full-length collection, Brandon Krieg displays a vision that is both sprawling and exacting, taking in everything from the ‘twin / cooling towers of a data-center / for the world’s most powerful / search engine’ to the indigenous people who once night-speared salmon by torchlight at the same site; from the Etruscans to GMOs; from Lewis and Clark and Emerson to Bill Gates; from the Roman empire to 21st-century America. With an artful and unobtrusive sense of craft, Krieg uses sound as a form of echolocation, trying to get us back to leaning on ‘ the awe-obstinate phrase’ and a new sense of the indivisible. A wholly original voice, and a Whitmanesque response to our natural world in the digital age.”

–Katrina Vandenberg