ARE YOU HURTLING TOWARDS GOD KNOWS WHAT?
Inside a speeding car, somewhere in the afterlife, the driver calms her brother with strange and hopeful tales. He responds in kind, and so they pass the time with poems, as they furiously race towards their uncertain end.
They tell each other stories of East German circus clowns crossing the border and buffaloes riding the Subway. Ghosts wander a post-apocalyptic mansion and doomed lovers plot an ice storm getaway. Memories of London mix with robots in the future as they meet an escapologist’s daughter, and the Invisible Man in a Times Square hotel.
So settle down in the back seat and be taken on a journey from the past to the future and to beyond the grave.
Inside a speeding car, somewhere in the afterlife, the driver calms her brother with strange and hopeful tales. He responds in kind, and so they pass the time with poems, as they furiously race towards their uncertain end.
They tell each other stories of East German circus clowns crossing the border and buffaloes riding the Subway. Ghosts wander a post-apocalyptic mansion and doomed lovers plot an ice storm getaway. Memories of London mix with robots in the future as they meet an escapologist’s daughter, and the Invisible Man in a Times Square hotel.
So settle down in the back seat and be taken on a journey from the past to the future and to beyond the grave.
Inside a speeding car, somewhere in the afterlife, the driver calms her brother with strange and hopeful tales. He responds in kind, and so they pass the time with poems, as they furiously race towards their uncertain end.
They tell each other stories of East German circus clowns crossing the border and buffaloes riding the Subway. Ghosts wander a post-apocalyptic mansion and doomed lovers plot an ice storm getaway. Memories of London mix with robots in the future as they meet an escapologist’s daughter, and the Invisible Man in a Times Square hotel.
So settle down in the back seat and be taken on a journey from the past to the future and to beyond the grave.
Praise for ARE YOU HURTLING TOWARD GODS KNOWS WHAT?
"like a road trip with Keroac and Spike Milligan - splendidly, beautifully strange"
Tom Toner, author of The Amaranthine Spectrum
"engaging... dark... fascinating... definitely worth the time"
From The Basement Reviews
"like the bewildered patron of a traveling medicine show, you find yourself entranced"
Douglas Cole, author of The Blue Island
"A wonderful poet"
Papa Razzi and the Photogs
About J.E.A. WALLACE
J.E.A. Wallace has been a hotel night manager, a car park security guard, and a barman in The House of Lords. Born and raised in England, he now lives and writes in New York City. His work has been published in Asimov's and The American Journal of Poetry among many others.
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Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-947021-67-9
Publication Date: December 4, 2018
