Teen pregnancy. The mindless slaughter of marine mammals. Environmental ruin. Foreign accents. Nuclear Armageddon. Pretty atypical poetry topics, and they’re all covered in Visions of a Moribund State.
I wrote the book as a sophomore in high school, and I know that because that’s when I learned the word “moribund.” It’s also the last time I used it.
It didn’t help that like all treasures, Visions was lost for a while. When rediscovered, it followed the course of all great literature and remained largely overlooked by the publishing industry. Thankfully, that’s about to change.
Someone with the fortitude to publish a book of prose as biting as this has finally stepped forward, and in anticipation of its release I’ve recorded an audio book featuring five excerpts from the full Moribund collection.
Rimbaud, Bukowski, Ginsberg, they’ve got nothing on this stuff. Take a moment, step out of your day, and bear witness to Select Visions of a Moribund State.
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