Apart from Concrete Existence

Apart from Concrete Existence begins by reminding "you," whoever the "you" might be: the reader or the speaker, that "not everything is about ... you." Krebs has crafted a collection which hovers just above an upturned earth. Each poem's vibrant lines delight in phantoms-whether they are phantoms of the dead or phantoms of language. This poetry creates its own reality and haunting landscape from our recognizably shared world but at a distance. There are times when it questions self-hood and others when it questions the existence of anything other than the self. There is a lonely yearning to be transformed by poetry. Through it all, it searches for survival and solid ground with each magical step.