Inspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht's , the poems of often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism, science fiction, and quirky angst. As cool in tone as a Lee Konitz solo and as lacking in affect as pop art, this first collection includes numerous poems that have appeared on the website. To shape something aesthetically charged out of the spent elements and enervated thoughts of a slowly failing society: that's the challenge has set for itself. These are two-dimensional poems for a one-dimensional age.