Splice

I admire the witty juxtapositions of philosophical artistic conversations, allusions to cinema and cinematic moments, the absurdity of celebrity culture, and ultimately the inescapability of our mortality. While through art the assumption is that one can become immortal, the poems in Splice ask us, "really?" With incredible verve and a large dose of self-deprecating humor, the poet skillfully weaves essential questions about our existence as we look to the legacies preserved for us for the answers. We find, in these poems, sometimes behind the prop door there's a brick wall . . . and sometimes, joy.

--Oliver de la Paz, author of The Diaspora Sonnets