solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short

Edward Carvalho is a twice-nominated Pushcart Prize poet (2004-2005) who has been writing poetry for over 20 years. His poems - once described as "original, innovative, imaginative and brutal" - have appeared along with his essays, reviews and critical papers in numerous journals throughout the country. In this collection, he defines our Age, "a sexton upon us, this lost generation, this disapora of X, this gray inheritance of bible-leaved smog and Yojo," Critically-acclaimed Connecticut poet writes of Carvalho's collection, "Carvalho's courageous, outrageous poems fuse celebration with despair; the mere fact that these poems exist illustrate that the spirit is not dead, that it is possible to care, to play with language, to create works of art out of the most grotesque human lives, and to love (if for a few seconds only) in defiance of the triumph of death.