Late human, paperback/jean day

Poetry.

LATE HUMAN is a collection of tragi-comic poems on lateness, belatedness, Weltschmerz, and borrowing (with a nod to Ernest Mandels 1975 tome on the twilight of capitalism).

The human of the title is multiple, personal, and drenched in the tears of the 21st century.

Cracked childrens rhymes lead onto an ethnography that takes Helen Mirrens first film appearance as seriously as Moby Dick.

At the volumes center, three laments honor the realism / that would send anyone to spasm, a sentiment that crests in the books title poem before alighting, provisionally, in Early Bird--its dawn chorus.