Reviews
"From selfhood to self-consumption, gunfire to the 'black gasp suck(ing) back into the gun,' the poems in Infinity Network loop, reverse, and reiterate, caught in the viral cycle that characterizes the violent, post-truth, solipsistic cultural moment. Poetry cannot, and should not, escape the consequences of the echo chamber we have made, and Johnstone is daring in his willingness to take it on--identity's slippage, and the anxiety that comes as we commute through our days and nights, 'the train burrowing / from station to station like a worm,' through a network of strangers--as subject, image, and sound. Infinity Network 's diagnosis is clear: 'The problem is / us.' Let's break some mirrors." --Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets, From selfhood to self-consumption, gunfire to the 'black gasp suck(ing) back into the gun,' the poems in Infinity Network loop, reverse, and reiterate, caught in the viral cycle that characterizes the violent, post-truth, solipsistic cultural moment. Poetry cannot, and should not, escape the consequences of the echo chamber we have made, and Johnstone is daring in his willingness to take it on--identity's slippage, and the anxiety that comes as we commute through our days and nights, 'the train burrowing / from station to station like a worm,' through a network of strangers--as subject, image, and sound. Infinity Network 's diagnosis is clear: 'The problem is / us.' Let's break some mirrors. --Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets