The Year the Eggs Cracked

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With provocative insights on every page and a new language for the heady, raw experience of being alive, these poems focus their gaze on the existential dilemma of how one finds meaning in a fallen world. The poems locate themselves in the detritus of modern consumer life, finding redemption and spiritual sustenance in a landscape beyond words. The work offers hope while stripping away the world’s disguises, revealing the stable, comforting, and agreeable ground of living in the present moment.

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“What a delight to read a poet who reminds us that ‘You can / get what you want, but it’s silly,’ and yet then goes on to give us not only what we want, but what we need: cunningly crafted poems.”
—David J. Rothman, author, Living the Life

“J Diego Frey is to poetry what Robert Manko is to New Yorker cartoons: dotted and humane, with a short reach to the absurd.”
—Scott Sawyer, author, Earthly Fathers