In Pestilent Swarms
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798601338950
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-08-16
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Author
- A J Mullins
Description
"In Pestilent Swarms" is a collection of poetry written by Calgary-based queer poet A. J. Mullins. The first poem in the collection was written in 2015, when Mullins was only 17 years old. Since then, Mullins has written thousands of poems, with this collection featuring what he believes to be the best among them. An eclectic collection, the poetry you'll find within addresses topics ranging from love and heartbreak to sexual abuse and climate change, social justice, queerness, femininity and masculinity, the role of gender, fantasy, history, nature, and the meaning of life and death--if he may be so bold. "If only such gods were! Would they save us? The poets and politicians would say no. Only we can save us, a superfluous Swarm of pestilence, bathed in the afterglow Of greed as the very planet burns. Allow me this respite, as the page turns . . . " - An excerpt from "The Mother's War" (pg. 101)
