Forgotten. Rejected. A collection of outcasts and failures. The debut work by indie musician and painter Christopher Edge, bastards is an assembly of a year's worth of discarded and seemingly unrelated poems. Unified only by their difference and their status as the "un-belonging", bastards portrays not just the frustrations, sadness, growth, and spirit of the author, but captures a subtle portrait of the contemporary American landscape.
Christopher Alan Edge (b. 1986) is an American painter, indie musician, poet and novelist.
He was the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the independent art-rock band A Very Loud Death. An internationally selling surrealist and neo-expressionist painter.
He is the author of three collections of poetry, bastards, Scarcity, and Loosened and the novel No Echoes.