agri-tech R&D heroics

Author: Andy Martrich

Publisher: H*d*ng Press (2021)

agri-tech R&D heroics is a small collection of 23 heroic ecopoems that surface as the result of certain esoteric record-keeping practices. It was initially the second part in a palimpsestic re-telling of the Parzival romance, which no longer exists. Each poem offers a unique, albeit symbiotic, expression of patented eternal wounds that can only be healed by the weapon that caused them (as per Grail mythology). In this case, the “weapon” is generalized as the power gained via the dynamic use of the logos in metadata description and inventory management wielded by multinational corporations (e.g., Monsanto and Bayer). It folds out into a print by Aaron Gemmill and is designed by Jonathan Gorman.