The Daily Glance
Crag Hill's 7 X 7 consists of poems of anger, disappointment, and awareness of how people in the U.S have let the war machine/capital machine/disinformation machine take over and about how that was bound to be because of our fears and (mis)direction.
cultural memoriesIn many of the poems, he includes fragments of found language to amplify or frame his commentary. Really, Hill seems to be making a claim for poetry as a way to make a stand. I'd like to think that poetry can help, but I'm not sure that poetry will change anything; still, Hill seems compelled to write this piece and make his commentary.
shot down, shut
off, shunted
to the attic
long grass washing up against rock
Integrity starts with the lowest prices. Information is the weaponObviously, Hill does not shy from saying what he wants, and that makes this book a politically-alive book.
of choice, a partner to air, sea, land. Fighting with bits
and bytes not with bombs and bullets. The black side of the
house. The Information Dominance Center. Without blowing
everything up, without cratering the whole neighborhood, making
that electrical system stop.
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