ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Consisting of poems and flash fiction, this collection cuts deep as it exposes the swollen propaganda personas of a techno-feudal society exhibiting extreme inequality in terms of wealth and power. The seamless transition from genre to genre, and back again, is striking in that the taut, stripped style of the writer offers the reader contrasting images that merge to form a unified whole. And this unity encompasses a late capitalist civilization that is teetering on the edge of total alienation of human beings from their own species and the natural world which we are exploiting so mercilessly.
The accompanying illustrations in stark, black/white tones perfectly capture this atmosphere of dread and souped-up technology.
You know how to live
with all the things
that come out at night
invincible,
or close enough
And you feel it:
that unseen thing
watching everything
in the dark
till the sun comes up
You know this with certainty
Still, it’s cold outside.
ABOUT THE POET
The author has chosen not to present biographical details so that the work may stand on its own free of personal identity.
