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by Josef Krebs (Author)
Apart from Concrete Existence begins by reminding "you," whoever the "you" might be: the reader or the speaker, that "not everything is about ... you." Krebs has crafted a collection which hovers just above an upturned earth. Each poem's vibrant lines delight in phantoms-whether they are phantoms of the dead or phantoms of language. This poetry creates its own reality and haunting landscape from our recognizably shared world but at a distance. There are times when it questions self-hood and others when it questions the existence of anything other than the self. There is a lonely yearning to be transformed by poetry. Through it all, it searches for survival and solid ground with each magical step.
Author Biography
Josef Krebs' poetry appears in Agenda, Bicycle Review, Calliope, Mouse Tales Press, The Corner Club Press, The Fiction Week Literary Review, and Burningword Literary Journal. A short story has been published by blazeVOX and a chapbook of his poems will be published soon by Etched Press. He's written three novels, five screenplays, and a book of poetry. His film was successfully screened at Santa Cruz and Short Film Corner of Cannes film festivals. He lives and works in New York as a freelance writer for Sound & Vision magazine.
