Night & Day

Eschewing conventional poetic fashion Laska''s engaging collection of over three decades of writings in the shadow of corporate domination is a sweeping poetic and prosaic lyrical and anti-lyrical assemblage of thought-provoking epigrams puns and philosophical dialogues together with voices and vignettes of a by-passed America. From the stripped-mined hills and hollows of Appalachia to the banal debris of urban streets his work unfolds with respectful understatement the on-going global desecration of inner and outer life. With patient yet alarmed urgency he brings to the surface an ecological counter-tradition whose contours trace back as far as the ancient Chinese Dao De Jing. -- Csaba Polony Editor Left CurveNIGHT & DAY is an iconoclastic 35 year poetic chronicle of America''s OCD. With a smiling grimace the author journeys to the psychological interior of the Homeland sees through the nation''s repetition compulsion and self-protective historical amnesia and returns with Zen-like epigrams satires dialogues and a set of healing philosophical Maxims of Access.