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.
Michael McLane on "Prevailing Westerlies" |
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"Fred Moten's perennial fashion presence falling"
"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."
via BOMB MAGAZINE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Allison Cobb on "For love"
"As a writer, I have been obsessed with the complexities of my origins, having been born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the town that built the first atomic bombs, and which remains the location of one of the nation’s three main nuclear weapons labs. Planetary legacies of damage and death stem from this place. How did this happen?" |
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