Collections of Madness

<I>Collections of Madness: Amateur Experiments in Genius</I> begins with e-mail conversations between three poets Jane Asil and Nod as they contemplate the answers to life's most difficult questions. Together they decide to write a book and let their findings be known.</P><P>The friends experience the universe together but also individually on separate bumpy paths. Jane Asil and Nod share their insights disillusionments and life-changing epiphanies. In Questions from the Lonely Girl Jane Smith explores how she is learning to breathe her own eclectic beauty into the world. In Asil Nottarts's section socio-political purely poetic mindless ranting and the creative process her whimsical poetry asks such introspective questions as Who am I really? and Is there ultimately any difference? In neo/fight blues poet Nod Nihill2 offers a wide range of verse including creative solutions for a world in crisis the contents of a fortune cookie and patterns of rejection.</P><P>In <I>Collections of Madness</I> the prolific words of Smith Nottarts and Nihill2 will entertain enrage excite and transport you from the profound to the profane--and from the mundane to the extraordinary.</P>