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Atrocities
Cantos charting the liberal Death of God turn mercurial, melancholic, and euphoric, across 30 years from 1994 to 2024. Mythopoetic figures rise from incoherent rubble, and art, faith, and paranoia unite in comedic rebellion against contemporary culture. With history as its protagonist, Atrocities prays for a twenty-first century artistic consciousness and a new metaphysical reality without defeatism.
124 pages, Paperback
Published August 31, 2026
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October 18, 2026
A strange but stimulating book.
Imagine the great 20th century poets, i'm thinking T.S Eliot and Ezra Pound in particular, but imagine if they were millenials in the 21st century, somewhat alienated from society, equally steeped in pop culture and the canonical classics of western civilization.
Imagine that said poets then tried to write a book that explained, on a level that is both esoteric and popular, the last 30 years or so of politics/culture/zeitgeist.
That's as close as i'm likely to get to explaining this book.
If you want something that will make you think and stir your imagination, this is it, If you just want a bit of casual reading then look elsewhere.
Imagine the great 20th century poets, i'm thinking T.S Eliot and Ezra Pound in particular, but imagine if they were millenials in the 21st century, somewhat alienated from society, equally steeped in pop culture and the canonical classics of western civilization.
Imagine that said poets then tried to write a book that explained, on a level that is both esoteric and popular, the last 30 years or so of politics/culture/zeitgeist.
That's as close as i'm likely to get to explaining this book.
If you want something that will make you think and stir your imagination, this is it, If you just want a bit of casual reading then look elsewhere.
September 10, 2026
I think I will come back to this over and over again for a long time
September 21, 2026
The best, the best, the best, the best, the best, the best, the best!
September 21, 2026
Brilliant, erudite, perceptive, lucid, ballsy… I have more adjectives to describe this book, but these will do for now. Read it.
September 21, 2026
First comes Hope,
Then comes the,
First suicide,
Attempt, then not,
Much on TV,
For a while.
The economy,
Doesn't exist,
Anymore,
Doesn't matter,
It never did,
Became nothing,
Long ago,
Get the nothing,
Back on course,
Drain blood from bone,
Turn the taps off,
In the desert,
Feed the pig,
Beyond its burst.
Then comes the,
First suicide,
Attempt, then not,
Much on TV,
For a while.
The economy,
Doesn't exist,
Anymore,
Doesn't matter,
It never did,
Became nothing,
Long ago,
Get the nothing,
Back on course,
Drain blood from bone,
Turn the taps off,
In the desert,
Feed the pig,
Beyond its burst.
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October 4, 2026This was interesting and I liked reading it but I'm not sure what I think of it yet and I have no ability to speak intelligently about poetry anyway. I expect I'll be rereading this.
October 12, 2026
I’ll say more elsewhere. It was very dark and very interesting.
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