Annihilation, monopoly

Author: Robert Burton

Publisher: Veer Books (2020)

"Experimental realization is the principal of Robert Burton’s excellent new collection of poetry. In riveting, rhythmic frictions images develop and fade, the 'Recognized is defused.' You can’t tell what is awaiting in the next line. The traumatic is told with a calmness of breath, excitement is set in short lines, 'Sound shape twines.' The delicate insistence of human experience, in all its complexity, is set in lush idiosyncratic imagery and elusive metaphor. Here are sudden pictures of resilient wonder. 'A day grows like a plant,' an experience anyone could wish for."

—Geoffrey Gatza