Praise for Tolu Oloruntoba and Each One a Furnace "The compendium of post-apocalyptic finches we meet in Tolu Oloruntoba's
Each One a Furnace seem to reach back to us from a not-so-distant future, to narrate the evolutionary burnout of most of the bird family
Fringillidae. Imagine if a poem could be the collective knowledge of a species in the moment of its extinction, a translation of the painfully beautiful finale of all birdsong. 'What lessons did you learn / about the transactional conviviality / of captive flocks?' Oloruntoba's finches, buntings, siskins, grosbeaks are all somewhere between mid-dying flight and already gone, singing like canaries in the coal mine of global capital, flaming out like comets of feather and consciousness and history." -Sonnet L'Abbé, author of
Sonnet's Shakespeare