In this prismatic debut, August Smith charts a course through the weird contours of the UFO phenomenon: the lore, the stories, the theories, and the questions it raises about belief and reality.
In poems that span a variety of styles–formal to experimental, strange to sincere–Smith harvests insights from otherworldly tales; expect cyclopean robots, unsettling dreams, alien erotica, frogmen careening through the skies, and, at the center of it all, the wandering poet trying to make sense of the impossible.
Concluding with an essay, this hybridized collection asks: what can the paranormal teach us about poetry? And what do poems have to do with our mysterious visitors in the skies?
