Patrick Johnson
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"What is the deep web? A locked door. A tool for oppression and for revolution. "An emptying drain, driven by gravity." And in Patrick Johnson's Gatekeeper-selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry-it is the place where connection is darkly transfigured by distance and power. So we learn as Johnson's speaker descends into his inferno, his Virgil a hacker for whom "nothing to stop him is reason enough to keep...
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