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Poems built from sci-fi, myth, climate, bodies,
and beautiful noise.
01 / FEATURED BOOK
Ten-Headed
Alien
A poetry collection moving through science fiction, myth, climate anxiety, bodies, and transformation—held together by a sharp theatrical intelligence.
“With a sinister exuberance, Brock's poems reveal human failure, vulnerability and hubris. There’s a tingle of glee in the details of humanity's demise, and a pull to question our complicity in the ruin of the world. Ten-Headed Alien contains poems of unease, and of familiarity, and in them we are all a little monstrous.”— Dina del Bucchia, author of Don’t Tell Me What to DoBuy the book
02 / EARLIER WORK
Everyone is
CO2
Crafting poems that delight scholars and fanboys alike, David James Brock addresses the things that influence our private mythologies, from television to space exploration, from heavy metal to the epic of Gilgamesh. What distinguishes his work is his knack for condensed narrative, lyrical inventiveness and his use of surprising details. He brings together all his experience as a dramatist and lyricist to mine the zeitgeist and write poems sure to entertain the most discerning pop-cultural intellectual.
Never resting… smart, snappy phrasing and interesting, offbeat subject matter.↗TOWN CRIER / 2014Collaboration is a Great Motivator
A multi-talented playwright, poet, and librettist.↗
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Brock's book is a sophisticated monster. This is war poetry that white-knuckles the horror story of normal life, where the most human thing about a robot is its lack of function. Here, language is a junkyard drum set of evil sounds, let loose in pursuit of an enemy half-machinic, half-mythic. Success is mutually assured destruction.— Linda Besner, author of Feel Happier in Nine Seconds
David James Brock is the vital, urgent and mesmerizing maestro of the breakdown. His voices—brimming with acuity, wit and imagination—chart the frightening and inexorable breaking down of our times. Ten-Headed Alien documents the struggle for coherence and connection in the moments where spasm meets dance, where nightmare bleeds into vision, where we encounter the monster of our history and where the fertile ruins of the present are surveyed from the ruins of the future.— Daniel Scott Tysdal, author of Fauxccasional Poems
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