Raven Mack: 5 books

Shakespeare Greenheart is book one in Raven Mack's freestyle sonnets project - to write over a thousand sonnets spontaneously, woven into heroic crowns. With the heroic crown, sets of fourteen sonnets are connected by the last line of one becoming the first line of the next. Additionally, the...

Exploring our fragmented existence through the meditative observational form of short Japanese tanka poetry. These poems were scribbled on notecards during barely free moments of Raven Mack's everyday struggle to maintain a precarious position, attempting to still find something real and natural...

Nasreddin Shifflett is book two in Raven Mack’s freestyle sonnets project – to write over a thousand sonnets spontaneously, woven into heroic crowns. With the heroic crown, sets of fourteen sonnets are connected by the last line of one becoming the first line of the next. Additionally, the last...

One thousand haiku written from the Workingman perspective along the back roads and dark alleys of American life. These short observational poems look behind the facade, struggling for what's real in our modern lives, not always finding enough of it, and self-medicating to try and make up for...

Sumo of BOOM! is a New Earth tournament involving eight men attempting to overcome unreal odds and ends to be crowned champion of a sumo tournament. New Earth is sort of like earth, but not really. It is a single elimination tournament that is based around the cultural concept of sumo wrestling, but...