Poison Begets Poison
Published on 15. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
58 pages
978-1-963908-67-1 (ISBN)
Description
What is the condition of human consciousness in the new/old America of hate and suffocation? Owen Hill's answer comes in the form of his most recent book, Poison Begets Poison, which uncannily and masterfully embodies our contemporary crisis with a Brechtian directness that braids critique with magic.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
86 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-963908-67-1 (9781963908671)
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Person
Owen Hill is a novelist and poet. The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story, forthcoming in the spring from PM Press, an omnibus of his crime fiction, includes three novels and a short story. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. In 2005 he was awarded the Howard Moss residency at Yaddo. He is co-editor (with Jerry Thompson) of Berkeley Noir for Akashic Press. A memoir, Hands on a Mirror, is available from Bootstrap Press. Owen worked for many years in a second-hand bookstore in Berkeley. He is currently an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World.