paperback.
poems & art by mike mahoney, 2017--2018.
304pgs.

After Blood-Soaked Centuries of Supposed Progress & Advance is a 300pg-collection of poems scribbled 2017-2018 documenting the inner & outer goings-on as dreamed & experienced as a 30yr old living the domestic-poetic-suburban life in 21st century America.

poems writ while tripping, breathing, working, drinking, smoking, pondering, loafing & laying about; poems on blowjobs, our ancestors, van Gogh's Sunflowers, the suburban apartment life, the double Myths of Progress & History, the Artistic process & the human predicament; poems as postcards, thought-experiments, mantras, musings, pictures, notes, reveries, songs & plans; poems scribbled from the bottoms of bottles of Bordeaux, from impossible hours between night & day as well as ordinary moments of dreary work & the daily everyday; poems jotted down from campgrounds, funeral homes, bars, cafes & tipis, work, hotels & home, from couches, beds, toilets, showers & the front porch; poems from inside psilocybic solitude, lysergic trance & clouds of joint smoke -- even poems touching on the nightmare world of politics.