Spool

Andrew Brenzas Spool is a reckoning of our diminished natural world through the register of a disjointed smeared and unraveling poetics. Consisting of a series of breathless lyrical and concrete poems Spool strives to represent both natures beauty as well as the tragedy of its destruction a destruction which is ultimately the destruction of ourselves. But the book does not descend entirely into despair for the authors novel approaches to poetic expression suggest an alternative way that humanity might imagine its place in the world a way that fundamentally incorporates and enacts humanitys vital connection to nature. It is through this alternative poetics that Brenza offers hope albeit a difficult one since it asks us not just to change the way we think about nature but the way we think about and within language itself.