New Reviews for Mare Island by Brooks Roddan

"Another exquisite book from IFSF Publishing and author Brooks Roddan (aka Thomas Fuller). A small book, silky cover, flaps around a rich terracotta color, elegant layout of photos and text... I love the short fragments of thought about empire, the vast ruins of a shipyard that saw the first atom bomb shipped off, a ghostly landscape of war-mongering, heroism and death. The text is personal, understated, made of Pascalian paradoxes, political poetics, intriguing bits of stories about time, memory, and the ambivalence of understanding. "I'd never seen a ruin so human." The author's images are their own haunted tale, as powerful as the writing."

Renate Stendhal