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This dark and thought-provoking poetry collection is co-authored by four multi-award winning authors and poets, Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon and Maxwell I. Gold. anOther Nemesis unravels sinister speculative poems themed The Colonizers, Primal Sources, Nameless Others and Crooked Ontologies. It reconnoitres words as weapons, reshaping to the unworldly, casting transfigurations of that which was never meant to be changed, and featuring poignant behind-the-poems by each poet. The extraordinary assemblage interrogates the ways cultures, language, information, and the lack thereof are used as means of control; how voices will always rise against systems that rewrite identity, suppress truth, and silence dissent; the distinctions of purity and diffusion and the infinite number of fates upon which our existence is simultaneously contingent; how ubiquitous indifference can sometimes be the cruelest villain of them all . . . and more!

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""anOther Nemesis strikes me as a searing indictment and a call to action, an analysis and a lament. Through prose poetry that shapeshifts, toying with form and structure, the collection dissects the complexities of otherness, identity and colonization. There is much to mine from Yuriko Smith's reimagining of mythic figures as the muses of the chronically online; Jiang's wounded verse that bleeds silenced selves across the page; Bacon's speculative beasts born of righteous rage, come to bring a reckoning; and Gold's transcendent vision of a world beyond walls. This powerful collection is not trying to fit in. Unapologetically 'other, ' anOther Nemesis evokes grief, anger, despair-and hope."" -Cheryl S. Ntumy, author of Black Friday and Other Stories from Africa and Songs for the Shadows (a Sauútiverse novella) ""Wrapped in razor wire, rebellion, and regret, anOther Nemesis summons us to a verse quest into embodied identity and finding futurehood after all that matters most is stolen away."" -Marisca Pichette, Bram Stoker and Elgin Award-nominated author of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair ""anOther Nemesis, the symphonic collaboration of four outstanding poets, is a poetry collection with deep, unvarnished insights into various aspects of humankind's self-destructive nature . . . anOther Nemesis will slice open your core and scoop out your sensibilities. Dive into these verses; drown in their depths. It is well worth it."" -Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD, award-winning Black speculative poet, author, artist ""Four of today's stellar speculative poets' voices come forth in a fierce chorus of resistance and beauty, raging against the confines of oppression, sculpting an aesthetic path toward that which makes us alive, individual, unique, and together. Shining a brilliant ray of light into the darkness, probing for freedom and discovering it through the power of language, this collection is a must read!"" -Jean-Paul L. Garnier, award-winning podcaster and owner of Space Cowboy Books

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