Shavi Blake: 5 books

Poems for the nuclear age. 246 permutations (reporting) (or predicting) the fallout of one man's inner/outer world. Like any forecasting algorithm- sometimes accurate, sometimes pathetically wrong.

Somewhere in the Mission District. Somewhere in North Beach. Somewhere behind half an inch of plexiglass, life tremors...

For 17 years, a Magicicada lives underground as an ugly nymph feeding on roots. In the summer of its seventeenth year, it instinctively constructs an exit tunnel and emerges above ground. It molts for the last time into an exquisite flying creature. Then, for two days, this beautiful insect consumes rainbows of drugs, tirelessly copulates, hits the road, and almost figures it all out...

Hipster-sploitation to the max. A feature length film so ironic that it's almost not. Huh?

Three friends. A San Francisco bar. One night in the timeless anatomy of despair, hope, and love...