Internodes e-bog

Moving with nomadic grace across the terrain of his previous book, Decompositions, the poetic language of Ken Belford in Internodes shares similar roots, traversing decades at the speed of a search query - pressing onward through Hazelton, the Bulkley Valley, and the unroaded headwaters of the Nass River in the Damdochax Valley - and meanwhile coming to terms with a poetry that "e;is lived"e; on the rugged streets of Prince George. In this twenty-first-century evolution, and one may say "e;mutation,"e; of Marshall McLuhan's oft-repeated adage that "e;the medium is the -message,"e; Belford's text takes into account the nature of viral marketing and the impact of similar forms of social "e;trending"e; on our lives and our language, challenging linearity and order in favour of a work that may be read forward or backward or experienced with an abrupt sense of intimacy, in media res.Whether reflecting upon the internodal segment that is a vital part of a nerve cell; upon the relationship between the nodes and internodes of a plant stem; or upon the internode merely as an interstice of jargon amid connections we forge through high-speed telecommunication and wireless networks, the text invites the reader to make an informed -decision before inviting others to "e;Like,"e; to "e;Favourite,"e; or to otherwise invest their social currency in Internodes. In addition to perceiving the poem as the "e;means of transmission"e; over time, Belford's poetic lines welcome readership as a form of collaborative action and agency in an age of crowdsourcing and flash mobs - and also as a form of ongoing social process that is sensitive to the life and demise of many of the decision trees that ultimately nourish our wavering notions of the future.