, and, most of all, the sea

Blurb

"', and, most of all, the sea,' a poignantly daring and intuitively eloquent poetry collection, marks the birth of a new writer, a viper who slices through skin and sinew, bites directly into the heart of the reader, and transfuses his golden poison there. Mr. Vytautaseneyevich, a young, queer, Russo-American poet of mixed Afro-Arab ancestry, unleashes his uniquely desolate and staggeringly captivating perspective with a quiet, austere dignity that both overlays and amplifies his cornered-animal screams of longing, anguish, fury, fear, despair, desperation, and defeat, frequently interspersed with tender pieces of kindness, beauty, love, hope, and wonder. Long tortured by clinical depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, Vytautaseneyevich's poetry naturally orbits around sheer nihilism, and yet he so frequently strives to show us that joy, that simple and sweet substance all too lacking in our congested, fragmented lives, can truly be found anywhere in the sublime.

Exquisite wordplay, divine imagery, and a most remarkable ability to simultaneously gently take one's hand and guide one's mind and tear out one's heart through complete emotional and physical immersion indelibly mark this poet as both a Young Master of his craft and a veritable spokesman and avatar for the youth of modern America, the generation the author himself once named as 'Bleak.' This is the fresh, wise voice we have long awaited.

', and, most of all, the sea,' is a major, masterful, and triumphant collection of breathtaking beauty and profound authenticity, and we, entranced by it, are tremendously eager to read so much more. May it come soon."