Author Description

petro c. k.'s first published collection of poetry is an auspicious debut, bringing the ancient roots of haiku and senryu into the present-day post-millenial tension of technological advances. Created in part using the omnipresent tools of algorithms and predictive text, these short-form poems are taken down unpredictable paths. Blurring the lines between observations and memories, of paths that are suggested to paths from self-examination, these haikai leave as many questions unanswered as they answer, as all great haikai should. "In our charged electronic era, as artificial intelligence enjoys a burgeoning nascency and emergence, there are few deeper, more captivating voids to gaze into, and partners to team up with, than the great and powerful ghost in our proverbial communicational shells. In a Western school steeped in Beat, symbolism, and postmodernism, which intersect strikingly with the cut-up theory of William Burroughs and the automatic writing of Andre Breton, this seems an inspired and natural progression and extension of ancient roots into our digital landscape and framework. This collection exists at the literary forefront where classical concepts mesh rivetingly with advanced technology and contemporary existential philosophic quandaries about meaning and content." from the foreword by Jerome Berglund