Night & Day

"Eschewing conventional poetic fashion, Laska’s engaging collection of over three decades of writings in the shadow of corporate domination is a sweeping poetic and prosaic, lyrical and anti-lyrical assemblage of thought-provoking epigrams, puns, and philosophical dialogues, together with voices and vignettes of a by-passed America. From the stripped-mined hills and hollows of Appalachia to the banal debris of urban streets, his work unfolds, with respectful understatement, the on-going global desecration of inner and outer life. With patient yet alarmed urgency he brings to the surface an ecological “counter-tradition” whose contours trace back as far as the ancient Chinese Dao De Jing.
-- Csaba Polony, Editor, Left Curve

NIGHT & DAY is an iconoclastic 35 year poetic chronicle of America’s OCD. With a smiling grimace the author journeys to the psychological interior of the Homeland, sees through the nation’s repetition compulsion and self-protective historical amnesia, and returns with Zen-like epigrams, satires, dialogues, and a set of healing philosophical “Maxims of Access.”"