Alexx Bollen: 2 books

the void sutras is a book of poems and short prose by Alexx Bollen, author of "Periphery." It focuses on the spaces left between major moments in life, and the moments between poems. It's a meditation on the vacuum that is left when one's life has been changed by loss, or marked by absence.

Periphery is an experiment in occult storytelling. It follows John the Younger on his journey though the implied levels of ritual initiation....There is an old Victorian house posing as an office in "The Burned-Over District." In that office, a giant, a waif, and a child wait for someone who can be...