Child, Dearest

Blurb

"'Child, Dearest,' is this year's definitive American poetry collection. The successor to the bestselling, critically-acclaimed collection ', and most of all, the sea,' 'Child, Dearest,' was written, compiled, and published in less than three weeks, a monumental testament to this author's true genius. 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.' Here, Mr. Vytautaseneyevich clearly reiterates that he is the fresh, wise voice we have long awaited.

'Child, Dearest,' is a major, masterful, and triumphant collection of breathtaking beauty and profound authenticity, and we are entranced by it. A necessary book if you wish to stretch yourself to your own darkest limits, to brush against the inarticulable feelings on the fringes of your mind, and we ache to do so much more."