Böcker av Jacob Minasian

In a near-future world where extreme weather events blanket the earth, the remaining human population is forced to move and adapt, guided only by an automated radio weather transmission. The Places Between follows these scattered journeys of survival. Journeys impeded by darkness and cruelty, and driven by hope.Minasian writes with a lyricism and brutal clarity, rendering layered characters who must navigate the horrific manifestations of nature, and the wickedness and barbarity of humanity itself. With chapters that stand alone as their own short stories and also intertwine to create a larger overarching narrative, The Places Between explores the human condition when pushed toward annihilation.

In his first full-length collection, Minasian stretches poems into seasons, everyday moments into epics, and encounters with the natural world into portals to a reimagined Greek Mythology. Beginning in 2019, and splicing between the narrator's past in California and present in Ohio, he explores the dichotomy of the two environments and the division in the country around him. Part memoir, part social commentary, Vestiges charts the months that become the storm before the storm, the fractures widening into canyons.

In his debut chapbook, Jacob Minasian tracks the often blatant inconsistencies he observes around him. Moving from California to Ohio just weeks before the 2016 presidential election, he records the startling social, political, and ecological transition from one environment to the next. Together, these poems construct the narrative of a journey, of a poet attempting to come to terms with the altered world around him, and to process the colossal shifts in the American collective.