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A startling debut from Joseph Turrent, harvesting tweets containing the words ‘the world is ending’ :

Literally, this is a text about whatever comes next. Abstractly, it is also about embracing the forever-moments of world ending, coupled with shattered and Earth-dried drizzlings of low culture and trivial modern life simple-problems; all of this, of course, moving at break-neck speeds—over and over and over and over… repetitive non-linear structures (and patterns), wholly uninterested in mimicking or replicating today’s contemporary expectations or standards or voices or poetic stylings. The voice of Joseph Turrent is cool & crisp & intelligent (& very necessary). The Moth Apocalypse is a type of literature meant to represent a hollow’d/scrape’d out human-sized rotting casket containing the echolocation’d tweets of the/a(n) authentic(ated) future-Past.
Mike Kleine, author of Kanley Stubrick [We Heard You Like Books, 2016] and Lonely Men Club [Inside the Castle, 2018]

“The Moth Apocalypse reads like a glitching RSS feed from an all too probable future, where two moons appear in the sky, Lana Del Rey wanders in a storm, and Elon Musk sings Baby Shark over and over again. Agilely appropriative, Turrent plunders the internet’s library of Babel to deftly weave a work that is a warped tapestry of celebrity, memes, and cultural tropes. It’s procedural roots and its utter modernity notwithstanding, this a deeply romantic book, the individual seeking to find themselves in a haunted hall of mirrors. In his debut collection, Turrent reveals himself to be a writer attuned to the nuances of the dog whistle and the tides whispering in the late-capitalist seashell. ” 
Tom Jenks, author of An Anatomy of Melancholy [2016]

“I wonder how many times we will get to experience an end of the world as beautiful yet terrifying as this. The repetitive, cyclical nature of the language of this book asks just how many times we will ignore the signs that the end is coming, how many times we will tell ourselves we are ready to stop the apocalypse before we fail. A deeply poignant and perceptive work that you will you remember as the crack in the sky opens above you.” 
Jake Wild Hall, author of Blank [Bad Betty Press, 2019]

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