“It’s like the internet made out of a tree.”
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Michael Leong's most recent books are Words on Edge, Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry, and Sky-Quake: Tremor of Heaven, a co-translation, with Ignacio Infante, of Vicente Huidobro’s operatic long poem. He is Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College.
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Hehe. Someday I hope someone quantifies the amount of nonrenewable resources burned each month to provide the electricity that powers the internet, assuming that’s even possible to calculate.
Agreed, A.D.!
Thanks for this post, Michael.
I also wonder about the historical data–how many whales had to perish for people to read at night?
And thanks for the thanks, Jeff!