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Acid Western by Robert BalunACID WESTERN is a mutagenic contemporary anti western. The poems in this collection can be seen as dispatches from the architectures of the terrain of the hyperobjects one finds themselves inside of in the 21st century, in which the social and political structures moved through on a daily basis are occurring (scaling, nesting + accumulation, incompletion, ephemerality, and oscillation are recurring features of the collection). Time and space are also

“Through her nonlinear narrative of hospitalization

Muse Found in a Colonized Body is 'something about a proletariat uprising / something about free water & food / something about more than just survival

and Dodgerdom

What does a love song echo against when it spins into space

and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times

once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities

the poems in this collection acknowledge the passage of time and the inevitable darkness that lies ahead

the seismic emotional toll of family secrets

A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Vogue

Most of the poems in The Optimist unapologetically employ traditional poetic technique

with #24 to commemorate the year he moved to Brooklyn and began elaborating plans for The Bridge

essayistic structure that asks Adorno to converse with Aaliyah and moves our viewfinder seamlessly from Detroit to Paris to Bushwick to Hargeisa to Brooklyn

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