Publisher's Synopsis
The Biology of Strangeness invites you to consider the impossibilities. This collection of poetry presents snapshots of the everyday - hideously decaffeinated mornings; scattered newspaper pages; insomniac nights in the company of cats; school buses; Hawaiian shirts - viewed through a fractured, surrealist lens. It offers kaleidoscopic new perspectives onto grand, universal themes, like memory, ageing, human conflict, loneliness and the quest to create better art. It's a celebration of the majesty of language and its staggering capacity to make us feel, think and understand. Elegant, yet earthy, Essig's style is rich with texture and detail. His work is suffused with a warmly wry humour that complements his often stark and steely realism. Mike Essig is a veteran of Vietnam and a retired English teacher. He's also been recruited by the muse as a poet, like he hadn't already been through enough.
