// For five months these poets, meeting at their dinner table, have paused to jot down ruminations, and pondering more deeply have withdrawn to their bedroom to limn their dueling/mutual misunderstandings of the eternal questions of love, coexistence, and bodily presence, while never forgetting to eat dinner, their favorite meal.// "This collaboration opens up what the everyday means to two people in love and what every day can be when opened up to the other. We need this."-Joe Hall, author of The Devotional Poems// "...Dinner Poems forces us to ask: what is collaborative writing as a genre? Moreover, what is the bare minimum at which a genre can function and still be recognized as itself?"-Holly Melgard & Joey Yearous-Algozin, from the Introduction to Dinner Poems// This is the first book in Bon Aire Projects' "Lovers" series.
Collaboratively constructed and conceived, Man's Wars and Wickedness: A Book of Proposed Remedies and Extreme Formulations for Curing Hostility, Rivalry, and Ill-Will is a book that sets out to accomplish exactly what it says it does... Taking as its point of departure allegories and alchemical texts, Man's Wars and Wickedness dissolves and transmutes a multiplicity of narrative forms into a book of its own kind, a sui generis work of literature. A timely book, Man's Wars and Wickedness takes on the dangerous fictions that become our collective realities. In the country of Swabia, a place with, among other elements, a paper mill, a new bible, an acting mayor, a doctor, a blue ox, a great war, someone finds millions and millions of pages of manifestos fluttering in the air, and on the street...
For three years, Joey Yearous-Algozin transcribed Holly Melgard's voicemails.
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