Poetry. "This is the little-known story of a figure that resembles Samuel Beckett-a school teacher sentenced to repetitions in the evacuated gloom. It is told through many persons, both known and unknown; it is true but not, a dead calm in the presence if giddy life. A broad grin covers these pages, especially in the unredeemable darkness. He kills us with the joke of a lifetime: 'nothing is funnier than unhappiness'"-from the Reader's Guide. Brian Strang teaches English composition at San Francisco State University.

Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA

Brian Strang lives in East Oakland and teaches English composition at San Francisco State University and Merritt College. He is the author of INCRETION (Sputyen Duyvil) and MACHINATIONS (a free Duration ebook) and several chapbooks. His poems, reviews, essays and translations have appeared in many journals including NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Five Fingers Review, DENVER QUARTERLY and Ur-Vox. Recently, his poetry appeared in translation in the Portuguese journal DiVersos.