A Symmetry: Poems High Interest/Low Vocabulary

A Symmetry: Poems High Interest/Low VocabularyThe poems in Ari Banias's thrilling and discursive second collection, A Symmetry, unsettle the myth of a benevolently ordered reality. Through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry, Banias contends with the inscriptions of nationhood, language, and ancestral memory in the architectures of daily experience. Refusing the nostalgias of classicism and the trap of authenticity, these poems turn instead to a Greece of garbage strikes and throwaway

Plastic Man

a fickle goddess that at times grants her the gift of healing and gives her the strength to lead her brothers and sisters in their fight for freedom against the oppressors who have enslaved their bodies

and a color map

The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society

The book features lavish film stills

reincarnates

and Emanuela Lupacchino (Starfire)

allies and enemies

and illustrated with 'how to' flow charts and diagrams

Legends & Lattes is a low-stakes fantasy that delivers exactly what's advertised: a wholesome

he writes with a persistent and indefinable feeling that goes beyond any formula

a story about how every society remembers and forgets its catastrophes