Poetry. THE BROKEN AND THE DAMNED by popular American poet Jason Hardung is a harrowing journey through the dangerous underbelly of the American underground - where drug abuse, violence, death and jail are part of the everyday landscape. Written in an unflinching style that weds the modern idiom to the more reflexive voice of poetry, this book does not avoid the realities of life, but confronts them head-on in a way that does not forget what makes a poem a poem.

Author Hometown: FORT COLLINS, CO USA



About the author: Jason "Juice" Hardung's work has been published widely through the American underground. Appearing in The New York Quarterly, Zygote In My Coffee, Underground Voices, decomP, Thrasher, Lummox Journal just to name a few. He has a chapbook, Breaking The Hearts Of Robots, out on Covert Press. He is co-editor of the Front Range Review and Matter Journal. Writing, for him, is something that soothes the savage beast, or whatever it's called. He is on probation for the next two years and hopes to have a novel done by then. He lives in Ft. Collins, Colorado, and loves it there, but doesn't like all the Subarus with kayaks strapped to the roofs, the earth tone sweaters, Teva sandals, or white kids in Reggae bands.

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