Practitioner Joy

Practitioner Joy is my celebration of my practice as a poet and at least in part my confrontation with inevitable death. This book brings to poetry contemporary trends that the West and the world seem to be embracing. We are outside Platos Cave where capitalisms crisis horizon threatens with precarious neoliberalisms every conduct is economic conduct cyber algorithmic I once was mine; now I am theirs and Yuval Noah Hararis and Stephen Hawkings Homo Deus (a new species of humans from the loins of the wealthy only) and prophetic voices are needed in an effort to counter and perhaps change the narratives and the futures direction. This collection of poems attempts to do just that. It is an alternative voice offering a way forward that promotes and celebrates Homo sapiens overcompensation practices through the ideas of Hegel Nietzsche and Rene Girard through Peter Sloterdijks You Must Change Your Life and Slavoj Žižeks Less than Nothing.