Acre Books: 5 books

After the Afterlife explores the zone between language and spirit. It is a book of inner and outer boundaries: of blockades, of tunnels, of wormholes. Where does our consciousness come from, and where is it going, if anywhere? With a nimble blend of wit, whimsy, and erudition, Hummer’s poems assay...

In 1844, Horace Wells, a Connecticut dentist, encountered nitrous oxide, or laughing gas—then an entertainment for performers in carnival-like theatrical acts—and began administering the gas as the first true anesthetic. His discovery would change the world, reshaping medicine and humanity’s...

Radison Allison Davies is a celestial Messenger. Transformed into a twelve-year old orphan boy ("RAD"), he is on a Mission to seek his Earthly half-brother and deliver him an important message. Arriving on Earth, he's unable to find him, for the place is now under siege by the forces of...

Radison Allison Davies is a celestial Messenger. Transformed into a twelve-year old orphan boy ("RAD"), he is on a Mission to seek his Earthly half-brother and deliver him an important message. Arriving on Earth, he's unable to find him, for the place is now under siege by the forces of...

After trading places with his earthly half-brother, a circus clown named Gemini, the celestial messenger "RAD" reunites with his fellow circus "doubles" DJ, JP, and a golden-voiced Diva, to fight the "Evil One". In his new human form, RAD takes on a Mission to bring back...