Machine in the Garden: On Marty Cain’s “The Prelude”
Rather than a rurality for tourists, a land recast as a bourgeois playground pervaded by natural and cultural heritage, Cain attempts a rurality that is grotesque and potent. He performs a pastoral contaminated by history.
Interrupting the Monologue: On Nicholas Stump's "Remaking Appalachia"
A sacrifice zone is a wasted place, or a place deemed worth wasting.