Description

Poetry
By Dan Pinkerton
88 pages; softcover
Available in April 2025 (but preorder now!)

Democracy of Noise is a hilarious, surreal send-up of soulless, late-Empire America, a land of unparalleled power, cartoonish wealth amid deep pain and poverty, scientific prowess never-before-seen, but also a place sick at heart with an endless streak of greed, authoritarianism and violence ready to erupt, and more than anything, a nonstop yearning, everywhere, for unmet meaning. In Democracy of Noise, Dan Pinkerton has written the perfect summary of our surreal, depressing-to-the-point-of-hilarity times. These poems are a Venn diagram of all of us. And don’t be fooled: this isn’t some idle art; if you pay attention, you might just recognize what’s wrong in our shared life, or your own. In a country where book bannings have become a point of pride, it’s rare for any book, especially a poetry title, to be important. But this one, without question is.