In an Attic Palace Beneath a Slaughtered Sky

Arteidolia Press 2022In An Attic Palace Beneath a Slaughtered Sky is a twenty-five year journey beyond; beyond surfaces and stories told straight beyond what the eyes see and the mind says. Greiner's poems are his want to go further. Purposeful language in itself is a confine. Wanting to annihilate this confine and come to a space beyond conclusion this collection of conclusive uncertainties caught in language calls out in a Siren song for a rising beyond. This is a step on the road of a tongue seeking strangulation and brilliant transcendence.John Greiner's poems perform at the pace of floating just inches from the ground. The rhythms of stride take the reader for a ride along the avenues of knowing; references that feel like old friends. In a circular philosophy Greiner's words remind the reader of how we came to poetry stories and hope in the first place. - Kathleen Florence poet & playwright.In an Attic Palace Beneath a Slaughtered Sky - Release Date: January 5 2022 Arteidolia PressJohn Greiner is a poet playwright short fiction writer and visual artist who lives in New York City. Greiner's collections of poetry include Circuit (Whiskey City Press 2020) Turnstile Burlesque (Crisis Chronicles Press 2017) The Laundrymen (Wandering Head Press 2016) Bodega Roses (Good Cop/Bad Cop Press 2014) Modulation Age (Wandering Head Press 2012) Shooting Side Glances (ISMs Press 2011) and Relics From a Hell's Kitchen Pawn Shop (Ronin Press 2010). Greiner's plays have been produced in New York City Chicago and Gloucester Massachusetts. His work in décollage is a motion towards a more transcendent poetic language and his collaborative pieces with photographer Carrie Crow has been shown in galleries museums and public spaces in New York Los Angeles Paris Venice Hamburg and Berlin.