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Will Vincent's Wildfires is both an incandescent love letter and molotov cocktail to California. His poetry is a slow-burning Anthropocene modernist epic, packed with uncanny prefabbed nostalgia foisted upon evacuated shrubland. While the landscape is contemporary, Vincent's obsession is entirely timeless as he questions whether or not evil is innate. Will Vincent is a glorious new talent. —Cathy Park Hong, Engine Empire

Wildfires are a source of destruction and renewal, and Will Vincent’s poetry does a little bit of both. Skidding across a terrain as much virtual as material, the poems in Wildfires, I–XVI collide past and future, and out of the wreckage steps our mangled contemporary moment where memories are collected to sell back to us as desire at a later date. Never far from arson, Vincent’s dynamic book is a unique playlist for the present. —Alan Gilbert, The Treatment of Monuments

What shocks me about Will Vincent’s Wildfires is the confidence and verve with which he puts his lines forward in a first book. He’s up to something you have to trust. Feels like I’ve run across an assemblage amidst an abandoned Disneyland, and the entire structure’s burning to reproduce through ecological imperative. A lot of disposable coal goes into making its permanent soul. —Garrett Caples, Power Ballads


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