Philip Matthews

“Each time I read Acid Virga (Archway Editions, 2020) I think, who IS this person? even as my brain knows it’s Gabe (Gabriel Kruis), among the dearest people to me on earth. I think we’re meant to feel this sense of remove, like we’re encountering the poet’s reflection (projected, astral, film-like) as he traverses memory, drugged perception, forwarding verse, inducing waves of euphoria and despair in the heart and mind.”