Killing Spree: Poems
In our historical moment, the question is not only what poetry can do, but whether it can make experience legible at all. There’s a lineage of writers who have theorized literature’s limits under conditions of devastation ... What makes Killing Spree remarkable is how it operates at that limit, even as bullets and drones whir by. It’s one of the few books of poetry that register the profound struggle of consciousness in our damaged world — poems grasping at what we still call 'human experience,' as its horizon recedes from us.
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Graham’s distinctly formed, austere, elegiac poems are bleak yet elegant and moving in their specificity and mystery as the speaker cherishes memories of a fecund world of bird song, trees, and freedom.
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Sets readers down in a strange place, where it is difficult to find one’s bearings. Graham seems to be challenging us to see the present from the perspective of a particular future, one in which there has been some major disjunctions with the present ... The age of tragedy is over, for the time of our agency is passed. Choice is no longer part of the equation. The fabric may be ripped, but we are not doing the tearing. Our hands have disappeared, so we must learn to speak the language of the idle, the powerless.
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