Gods and Suicides by Gary Allen
A chapbook of poems from the bardo written with one eye on the gods and the other on human misery. It charts the slippery, tragi-comic displays of human consciousness lost in dreams of birth and death, and finds the places where the deepest human darkness reaches to touch the divine. The book has several evocative images done by Amy Kohut.
CONTENTS
A Brief Report on the Gods 3
& Meanwhile 4
Fingerprint 6
Jaws 8
Boxes 9
Pyramids & Assorted Locations 11
Yes & No 14
Merry Christmas 15
Antarabhava 16
Advice to a Suicide 22
Old Indian 24
Ghost of a Suicide 25
Asleep at the Bottom 26
Best-Case Scenario 27
NOTES 29