The Incentive of the Maggot

In his prize-winningcollection Ron Slate seeks out the intersections of art technology and humanity with intelligence wit and fervor. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. As Robert Pinsky writes in his introduction Slate brings together the personal and the global in a way that is distinctive subtle defying expectations about what is political and what is personal. In Slate''s words Is this the end of the world? / No just the end / of the language that describes it. Recently published in The New Yorker Slate has been praised by James Longenbach for his ability to make the known world seem wickedly strange a poetry that is utterly of the moment our moment because it sounds like nobody else.