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.