Michael McLane

The problem with trees is obscurity. You cannot see the future lumbering through the night towards you until it is already on the roof. So we cut them down and distribute them evenly among us so there can be no blame. And we are many and cold, and the trees are legion. One among us has learned to play music on a saw. Low and trembling, it is the song of victory.
from the book FUME / GreenTower Press
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Though "Fume" deals predominantly with Centralia, Pennsylvania after the start of the mine fire in the 1950s, there are moments that visit earlier iterations of the town and the industry in it. "Prevailing Westerlies" is one such moment. It is a poem concerned with both environmental degradation and migration and how those two processes interweave in human endeavors.
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"Poetry has devised schemes of social and psychic etiquette as alibis for its inadequate darlings but the fact remains: beauty is a rare thing. Moten helps us feel the difference between real beauty of spirit and its impersonations, by uniting style, rigor, and form so seamlessly that the lesser musics will simply be forgotten."

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