Project Genesis

by Gerald Brennan

Sex, violence, adultery, insanity—this is the Bible like you’ve never seen it before.

Project Genesis features 12 first-person poems inspired by the Book of Genesis, by way of Eminem. Profane, powerful, compelling and challenging, this collection offers new insights on some of humanity’s oldest stories.

Kindle Edition

Published March 23, 2014

About the author

Gerald Brennan is a self-described corporate brat who hails from the eastern half of the continent but currently resides in Chicago. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and later earned a Master's from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He’s the author of Resistance, Zero Phase: Apollo 13 on the Moon, Project Genesis, Ninety-Seven to Three, and Public Loneliness: Yuri Gagarin's Circumlunar Flight. He's been profiled in Newcity, and his writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Good Men Project, and Innerview Magazine; he's also been a co-editor and frequent contributor at Back to Print and The Deadline. He’s into Camus, Dostoyevsky, Koestler, Hitchcock, Radiohead, and The National, but you can also catch him reading Jim Thompson and even sneaking in some Wahida Clark from time to time. He’s also a huge Martin Scorsese fan.