The poetic language in Internodes traverses decades at the speed of a search query. In this twenty-first-century evolution of Marshall McLuhan"s coinage that "the medium is the message," Ken Belford"s text takes into account the nature of viral marketing and the impact similar forms of social "trending" have on our lives and our language, challenging linearity and order.Ken Belford is the author of seven books of poetry, including Decompositions, which was nominated for the 2011 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. An early advocate for the ecology movement of the 1960s, he attempts to write not "about nature" but "from nature."