We are the Makers of Maps

by A(W) Baader

In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos.
-Yi-Fu Tuan

60 pages, Paperback

Published May 27, 2016

Reviews

[Michael Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another solid release from A(W) Baader. The core of this book is the short story 'The Downfall of the Good Worker Laura McTavish' which is a wonderfully modern horror story. Baader excels in this form and style; the everyday world infected by the strange, outside element, and with the unreliable narrator. Precisely how much of these strange happenings are real or are all in the narrators mind is always left in question. Beyond this story there are some well constructed poems and structured prose pieces; hybrid works where the tone and rhythm are dictated by the textual formatting itself, instead of by standard punctuation. My favorite of these was 'in these ways we remember,' a dark cosmic horror / survival horror piece and 'Maps,' which concerns mans artifice and its intrusion on the natural world.