An elegantly produced perfectbound book containing "expanded and rejuvenated" (the author's words) sections from his well-known BUG DEATH (1979). This book functions as a single whole, however, and provides an excellent taste of Nettelback's art, which is perhaps harder to appreciate through short takes appearing in magazines. ECOSYSTEMS COLLAPSING is really a single long poem, creating through a variety of literary and visual techniques the impression of a multitude of voices speaking through a single totalizing consciousness, a consciousness that judges while at the same time being all it contains:
exciting intriguing breathtaking
sleep "Best/
legs twitch in blasting dreams
new character, good. we'll
see"
Essential reading.--John M. Bennett
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #2,
Contact the editor, luigi-bob drake, at Burning Press
Copyright Burning Press 1993, 1995.