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\u201c<\/em>Acres\u201d <\/em>by Bill Shute, Kendra Steiner Editions, #131, 2009.<\/p>\n

What have we become? If observing the industrial minicosm of Bill Shute\u2019s Acres <\/em>can tell us anything, it\u2019s that we are increasingly a society as he concludes: without ideas, only things.<\/p>\n

And so he takes us through a setting of things: buildings with their smoky windows, paradoxical images, elements of nature and industry where natural stones have been unnaturally chiseled into angular structures of utility. Three old oaks are contained in this development, as though their natural context could be chiseled and contrived as well, in a median surrounded by pavement.<\/p>\n

Steel poles with their boxy light fixtures (again, angular) challenge the claims of the old oaks, rivals in the vertical spaces. They are as towers contrived not by the needs of nature and biology, but rising from the plans of civilization.<\/p>\n

In these acres, the landscape is reconfigured, and ironically the speaker is observing a space where what is natural is out of place: walking instead of driving? Only if there\u2019s a compelling reason. Nature itself is reduced to a design element. Is he such an element? Where does he fit in?<\/p>\n

This book is a short read, it aims to present a series of observations but trusts the reader\u2019s ability to draw conclusions without overtly preaching or doling out judgment with a heavy pen. We can infer certain things, particularly about social stratification and this idea of \u201cother\u201d that is explored in both the natural versus industrial comparison, and in the physical barriers. Shute\u2019s acres are stratified: gated communities, neighborhoods and buildings that are off limits, pedestrians versus drivers, participants and observers. Perhaps the message hits home here: where food is \u201ceaten by those family members able to make it\u201d.<\/p>\n

What is he saying about progress, and the table that is our collective largess, our bounty? The speaker is of the space, but apart from the space, aligned with the outsider, the pedestrian. The speaker is aligned with the oaks in the median, the carved hills, the absent.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcres\u201d, Bill Shute. Kendra Steiner Editions<\/a>, # 131. 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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