Under Forests of Futility

A collection of lyrical, melancholic poems by the author of A Natural History of Seaweed Dreams and Songs from the Black Moon.

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"Like a revenant, the poems of Rasu-Yong Tugen resurrect the literary tradition of Dark Romanticism - stark, sparse, and drenched in a blackened lyricism...ecstatic lamentations for the world-without-us..."
-- Eugene Thacker, author of In The Dust of This Planet

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"In this book is poetry that evokes the impersonal all around us, and deep within us. It is poetry carefully chiselled from the hues of night."
-- Joao da Cruz e Sousa, author of Notebooks of a Black Swan

"This is not a book for human beings. For every reader will, upon reading it, become lost - blissfully, bewilderingly lost - like a sleep-walker in the black forests of lyric."
-- Comtesse Anna de Noailles, author of A Shadow of Days

"A harrowing testament to the luminous uselessness of poetic language. I wish all language was this haunted."
-- Sadegh Hedayat, author of The Blind Owl