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<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Benjamin DeCasseres (1873-1945) was one of America's most unruly men of letters-a journalist-polemicist-poet who moved with equal audacity through satire aphorism and metaphysics. A contemporary of the avant-garde and the mass press alike he helped usher </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nosferatu</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> to its first U.S. release and with theatrical bravado was filmed taking the first legal drink after Prohibition. His poetry is where the full voltage lives: hymns of revolt and litanies of negation that fuse Symbolist decadence American irreverence and Nietzschean individualism. In these pages DeCasseres casts himself among mythic masks-Satan Vulcan the Anarch-only to puncture every pose with irony.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>revised and expanded second edition</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> triples the uncollected work from the first edition and restores a neglected American voice to its proper amplitude. It adds a new index of 1000+ entries substantially expanded paratexts and poems translated during the author's lifetime (French Romanian) alongside his previously published works: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Shadow-Eater</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Anathema! Litanies of Negation</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Black Suns</em><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</strong></p>