The Century of Travel

Tim Kahl's poems are 'open source' for the end of the West. These big, bold poems swerve between history and pop culture, between nineteenth century bull and bear baiting to twenty-first bull and bear markets. The Century of Travel records the brainy, mournful, maniacal music of our colony collapse. Kahl discovers in the California Central valley our new American habitat of foreclosed sub-divisions, dying turtles, homeless encampments, and the residue of all our striving. Again and...
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Tim Kahl's poems are 'open source' for the end of the West. These big, bold poems swerve between history and pop culture, between nineteenth century bull and bear baiting to twenty-first bull and bear markets. The Century of Travel records the brainy, mournful, maniacal music of our colony collapse. Kahl discovers in the California Central valley our new American habitat of foreclosed sub-divisions, dying turtles, homeless encampments, and the residue of all our striving. Again and again, his poems push back against elegy with energy. In writing about his brother, Kahl may have been describing himself: 'This man has a heart trained for/perilous rhythm'."--Camille Norton