Poems reflect on connections between Ezra Pound, imprisoned at Pisa after World War II, and military prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.
Clint Burnham is widely published as a critical theorist, poet, and author of books on digital culture. He is the author of book-length studies of Steve McCaffery and Fredric Jameson, a novel titled Smoke Show (2005), and several books of poetry, including The Benjamin Sonnets, published in 2009. His most recent critical book is The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2012). His most recent art writing includes a catalogue essay on Canadian photographer Kelly Wood; an essay on Edward Burtynsky is in the forthcoming Petrocultures collection from McGill-Queens. During a residency at the Urban Subjects Collective in Vienna in 2014-15, Burnham wrote books on Slavoj Žižek and digital culture, and on Fredric Jameson and Wolf of Wall Street.
Burnham is an associate member of the SFU Department of Geography and a member of SFU's Centre for Global Political Economy. He is a founding member of the Vancouver Lacan Salon and can be followed on twitter @Prof_Clinty.